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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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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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  • “1964: The Year That Changed America”

    2025-06-07 elrichiboy
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Conspiracy Theory?

2014-11-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Isn’t it great that I post two videos, and both of them get pulled? I tell you I am cutting

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Extraterrestrials Working for the Government

2014-11-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Gary Larsen’s Tales From The Far Side

2014-10-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Gary Larson's Tales From The Far Side by Arsene-desbois

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The 5 C’s

2014-10-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

When I was in grade school, shortly after the discovery of fire but before the invention of the wheel, we

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600 Days and Counting

2014-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s been 600 days since an El Paso Police officer shot and killed a handcuffed prisoner in the sallyport of

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Good News and Bad News

2014-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week the El Paso Inc. brought us both good news and bad news. The good news is that there

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The Purple Zone Revisited

2014-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Remember that story about the DEA raid on the smoke shop in Alpine? How the feds showed up dressed for

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All My Friends

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This just in: a new company will offer tours to our sister city this winter. Juarez Lowrider Tours is offering

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Why Democracy Will Never Work in El Paso

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If it’s entirely a numbers game—numeric representation—then obviously you’d be talking to half the people in Hong Kong [that] earn

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Marketing Advice from today’s Wall Street Journal

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Find your identity, and then throw everything you have behind that, because that’s going to be the most honest and

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Something to Consider

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The No. 1 most significant risk to every organization is your well-intentioned, nonmalicious insider.” – Jeff Leek, chief information security

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The Impending, Ongoing, QoL Bond Fiasco

2014-10-18 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 6 comments

Bad news for the Quality of Life Bond advocates. You got sold a pig in a poke. Remember when they

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If they can’t read, how can we expect them to write?

2014-10-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from the August 16, 2014, El Paso Times, headlined US Department of State re-issues warning about traveling to

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California Assemblyman Jess Unruh on Lobbyists

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If you can’t drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women and then vote against ’em, you don’t

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Buying Government Influence for Less $

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m a little disturbed by Beto’s latest campaign move, to solicit donations of less than $200 from enough people to

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The Secrets of the Ballpark’s Financing

2014-10-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a little nugget I gleaned from Local Government Code Chapter 334, the ordinance under which we were gifted the

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Are UTEP Students Getting Their Money’s Worth?

2014-10-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is UTEP one of the ten best universities in the country? Is it as good as UNM? The University of

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Legalizing Drugs

2014-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a wacky idea from some of the top institutional minds in the world, including former U.N. Secretary General Kofi

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How to Increase Voter Participation, Texas-Style

2014-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter about increasing voter participation rates here in El Paso. The election of the

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The Murky Future Revealed

2014-09-23 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

You may recall that the City of El Paso is scrambling to make up a $3.5 million dollar shortfall in

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