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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurant Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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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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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • “The Arrest That Exposed the CIA’s Most Secret Mission”

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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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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  • 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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Richard Dayoub on the Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso Chamber of Commerce President Richard Dayoub expressed hope and reservations about the Borderplex Alliance’s new strategic plan, in

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NASA: The World is Running Out of Water

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

More good news on the potable water front, from NASA via the Washington Post. We’re using groundwater faster than we’re

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News from the 4th Estate

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Have you noticed that since Gannett announced the takeover of the El Paso Times that the quality of their reporting

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Income Distribution and Economic Growth

2015-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Communists at the International Monetary Fund have decided that when people talk about trickle-down economics, they’re pissing on your

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My Big Idea

2015-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I have a transformative branding concept for the City of El Paso. I mean it. It’s something we could all

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Big Ideas from the Borderplex Alliance, Bless Their Hearts

2015-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I’ve been reading the Borderplex Alliance’s Regional Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which you can download here, if you’re feeling a little

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The Margarita Cabrera Sculpture Debacle Continues

2015-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Accomplished author and journalist Debbie Nathan has summoned some damning emails from the City of El Paso’s handling of artist

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El Paso Gets National Attention

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story on news aggregator Newser.com, El Paso women can find abortions. A woman in El Paso would

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Oops.

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

No, I really blew it. I mean I really, really, blew it. I went by Lucy’s Coffee Shop today they

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Who Wants to be Mayor?

2015-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I suspect the power elite is cautiously, surreptitiously, gently, sidling up to some of the ankle-biters and suggesting that they

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What’s Their Game?

2015-06-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

So City Council is all het up to build a 12,000 seat arena in downtown. What’s that all about? We’re

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Adios, amigo

2015-06-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Lucy’s Coffee Shop, that venerable institution that opened in 1974 in that old motor hotel near downtown, appears to have

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The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. — Steve Martin Did you read this story in

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Big News from Wazoo

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you read the big news out of Juarez last week? No, not the futbol team. (I thought Juarez already

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City (Not El Paso) Raises Taxes to Pay Legal Settlement for Police Misconduct

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In a case that may portend what’s in store for El Pasoans, the city of Inkster, Michigan, will hit taxpayers

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More on the New State Law on Public Corruption

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the State Legislature passed that bill giving the Texas Rangers the authority to investigate

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The El Paso Times Urges Fiscal Responsibility!

2015-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Sunday published an editorial calling for a more sensible approach to civic finance. Over the past

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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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El Paso: Not like the Movies

2015-05-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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