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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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Fixed Idea at the Lowbrow Palace

2016-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Are you trapped in a loveless engagement? Do you want to break up with your significant other, but don’t know

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“You messed up. You trusted us.”

2016-08-25 elrichiboy Media, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The media is asking us to remember that our taxes are going up because we approved all those tax intensive

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Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls on Friday

2016-08-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Black Joe Lewis is bringing his party to Tricky Falls Friday, and he wants you to come.

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Property Taxes are Like Global Warming

2016-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Our local media like to tell you how much a property tax increase is going to cost you. But your

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Viva Juarez, Cabrones. A Downtown Restaurant Guide.

2016-08-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

One of the best things about El Paso is Juarez. It’s more than a different city, or a different country.

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Blank Range with Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls

2016-08-23 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Blank Range opens for Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears on Friday, August 26, at Tricky Falls. Tickets are

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La Vero Speaks Out

2016-08-23 elrichiboy Commissioners Court 2 comments

County Judge Veronica Escobar addressed the salary increase issue with this letter posted via the Constant Contact website. In it

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There You Have It.

2016-08-22 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Media, Politics 6 comments

This weekend the El Paso Times told us what they thought about the County Commissioners Court giving themselves raises last

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Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls

2016-08-20 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Austin’s Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears play Friday at Tricky Falls. Tickets are $13 in advance.

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Progress, at last.

2016-08-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez One comment

There used to be the nicest neighborhood over there in Juarez. It was called the Mariscal for one of the

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I’m taking a mulligan.

2016-08-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Yesterday I dropped the ball. Occasional commenter Henry offered this in response to my post about the popular exodus from

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The Truth About the EPISD Bond Proposal

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is asking voters to approve a $669 million bond. (I bet it was $666

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Juan Mexicano Arrested in Chicago

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment

That’s what the Chicago Tribune says: Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a Addison man after Elgin Police,

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Things are heating up in Juarez.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

My favorite Juarez news source La Polaka reports that there have been 29 murders so far this month in Juarez,

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People also vote with their feet.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, School Districts 10 comments

According to this estimate provided by the City of El Paso, El Paso County population was 833,487 in 2014. For

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Manufacturing Consent

2016-08-18 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The EPISD School Board claims that recommending less than what the Bond Committee asked for would be “disrespecting” the committee.

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It’s Almost Good.

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

El Paso is beautiful. The mountains. The sky. My wife. (That’s not her in the mural.) And the art. Especially

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Surprise!

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Well, there it is. The El Paso Times reports that the University Medical Center, overseen by the El Paso County

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I’m Too Clever by Half

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Taxes 2 comments

Fellow blogger Mr. Jaime Abeytia informed me, via a response to a comment I made on his blog and through

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Did they, or didn’t they?

2016-08-16 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Taxes 2 comments

Did the Commissioners Court publish their intent to raise their salaries in a local newspaper of general circulation? Because according

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