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  • The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

    2026-08-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Outspent 11 to 1 by incumbent Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 Vanessa Johnson

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

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  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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Julian Aguilar on the Juarez Violence

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Julian Aguilar is a brilliant journalist and photographer in Ciudad Juarez. He’s lived there long enough to know some stuff,

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The City wants to run the CRRMA. What could possibly go wrong?

2016-11-29 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The mayor and the City Council said Monday they will

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El Late Night with Special Guest Richard Wright

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Walking across the bridge, I wish I’d brought a scarf, except the holiday house guests were between me and the

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Kentucky Club Sanctioned for Discrimination Against Indigenous

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

Well, the Kentucky Club is in the news again, and not for anything good. LaPolaka (Noticias en Caliente)* reports that

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You must be rich, or you couldn’t owe so much money.

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Did you know that, despite having household incomes about twenty percent less than the rest of Texas, the City of

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Twice the Fools

2016-11-28 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I want to apologize to my children. Actually, on behalf of every American who’s voted in the last 100 years,

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Patience, patience

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Downtown Management District Executive Director Joe Gudenrath sees a very faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.

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Mow Glee

2016-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

[El Chuqueño would like to welcome our newest contributor GC Adams presenting this musical interlude.] by GC Adams Mary got

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Feliz Día Desgracia

2016-11-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

Today is the day we express our thanks for everything we should be thankful for. Like family. Friends. Sunshine. Music.

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The Chamanas at Lowbrow Palace Tonight

2016-11-23 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Local rock stars the Chamanas play the Lowbrow Palace at a free, all age show tonight. The nominal start time

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Jim Tolbert’s Hamilton Moment

2016-11-23 Reesa Turner City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 11 comments

by Reesa Turner I confronted my acquaintance, Jim Tolbert at the Castner Range Forever event, in the 10 minutes or

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The Definition of “Ancillary”

2016-11-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, The Arena Leave a comment

From our good friends at Google: adjective: ancillary providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization,

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Arena-gate: Another lie?

2016-11-22 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

This weekend the El Paso Inc. ran a story about the City’s newest volley in the fight over the arena.

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Stomp and the Globetrotters

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Check it out:

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Champions League Tomorrow

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports, Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Greetings, sports fans. Tomorrow is the fifth week of the first playoff round of the Champions League of the Union

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El Mariachi Rides Again!

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

There’s a new bar over on the Drag. El Mariachi. Okay, it’s not new if you’re a dinosaur. But still,

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Taking a Ride

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How long, till, like the Wyler Aerial Tramway, it

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The Summer of ’69

2016-11-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media, Slider 2 comments

A conscious reader alerted me to this piece on MSN.com: When Michael Lightbourn agreed to look at an old hot

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Boeing closing local plant, sending jobs to Huntsville

2016-11-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, sports One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? Boeing, an important part of El Paso’s defense industry for years,

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The Lost Emails: Day 4

2016-11-19 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena 3 comments

I got up early this morning, while the rest of the house was asleep, and booted up my laptop, as

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  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision

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