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

    2026-07-30 Guest Column

    By Dylan Corbett, Special to El Paso Matters. Our city stands at a turning point. Schools are closing. Young people are leaving. The global economy

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

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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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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  • 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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We get the government we deserve.

2015-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board weighed in on the significance of the recent election results. El Paso’s voters sent

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Legal Pot in Texas?

2015-05-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of my homies have been telling me that legal is right around the corner. From the Houston Chronicle Online:

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El Paso vs. Art

2015-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Maybe you’ve heard the chatter on your social media accounts about the City eighty-sixing Margarita Cabrera’s sculpture from the roundabout

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We Deserve Better

2015-05-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

This story in the Sun Shopper, er, I mean the El Paso Times, by ace reporter Aaron Martinez leaves a

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Downtown Development? Thank Jim Scherr

2015-05-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

The talk around the water cooler is that the owners of those new boutique hotels were motivated by the success

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The Unintended Consequences of Branding

2015-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Do you remember when Sun Metro used to be called Sun City Area Transit? They had to change it because

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Armed Home Invaders Kill 22 Year Old Man in Front of His Mother

2015-05-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Can you imagine if the victims had their own Public Information Officer, or spokesperson, who was pampered by a lap-dog

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Limited Time Offer

2015-05-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I know downtown Juarez like a sailor knows the sea. This isn’t some rowdy, drunken, staggering frat fest. At least,

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Wouldn’t it be cool if any of this story were true?

2015-05-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from respected internet portal Overpasses For America detailing how a bunch of Minutemen detained two men with

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Just relax.

2015-05-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you heard about the burglary suspect who was shot by El Paso Police in his home, in front of

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Mr. Rogers neighborhood, or equivalent

2015-05-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

I recommend you get a house in an old neighborhood. Not just a house in an old neighborhood. A house

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Our Secret: Code

2015-04-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If El Paso really wanted to be on the leading edge in the jobs market, the schools would teach coding.

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They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2015-04-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group makes from that ballpark, El Pasoans will never

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Come on, we’ve got this.

2015-04-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to data collected for this paper on patterns of drinking in the American Journal of Public Health, El Paso

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Revolution

2015-04-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve got this crazy idea. What if, before City Council votes on anything, we ask each Representative if they received

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It seems apt

2015-04-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a quote, dubiously attributed to Charles Bukowski, that seems appropriate to the local political scene. “The problem with the

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From That Guy Who Always Rings Twice

2015-04-24 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of interesting political advertisements in the mail today. One was from Yes! Yes! For El Paso

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Homegrown

2015-04-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

If you’ve ever eaten a fresh tomato in winter, you’ve probably eaten a tomato grown by slaves. If you’re one

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Over the line

2015-04-22 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez Leave a comment

If El Paso wants to thrive, we need to reduce the disincentives to crossing the border. We need to debunk

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We’re not citizens, we’re subjects.

2015-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How much of a voice do you have in the way you’re governed? Did you get a vote on the

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