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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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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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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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How to Live in El Paso

2015-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Some people think we need to spend a half a billion dollars to make El Paso an attractive place to

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Is the Border Patrol Out of Control?

2015-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There was the incident last week where Border Patrol agents chased a man for thirty miles before they shot him

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About the Camino Real

2015-01-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Locals are the worst people to ask about hotels, because mostly locals don’t stay in local hotels. The Camino Real

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White King Puto

2015-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m thinking the branding company didn’t perform due diligence seeing how this product name translated into other cultural contexts. Or

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Deflate-gate Started in 2007

2015-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here is an extremely interesting analysis of the New England Patriots recent seasons, which seems to indicate that maybe the

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Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe

2015-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year. El Paso’s hotel occupancy

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“Don’t Fix City Budget With More PSB Fees”

2015-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

That’s the headline from a guest column in this week’s El Paso Inc. It was written by outgoing board member

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A Penthouse in the Heart of Downtown

2015-01-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

One of El Paso’s reclusive millionaires has a penthouse in downtown El Paso. I’ve always wondered what it looked like,

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Expect Less

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Billionaire Jeff Greene is taking lots of flack for saying “America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to

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Border Patrol Shoots, Kills Man Who Drove Through Sierra Blanca Checkpoint

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Border Patrol checkpoints can be deadly. This story came from KURV710, Fox News Radio: The U.S. Border Patrol says

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Go to Mexico

2015-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Travel in Mexico is great. The country is beautiful, the culture is rich, and the dollar is strong. A decent

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NY Speaker Arrested for Corruption. Is Texas Next?

2015-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

This from the Associated Press: New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused

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Don’t Blame the Bigs

2015-01-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s not fair to lay the blame for El Paso’s recent poor performance on lists like Milken’s Best Performing Cities,

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Where are the Good Cops?

2015-01-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CounterCurrentNews.com. “If you snitch, your career is done,” one officer told him. He eventually became public

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Is El Paso Safe? Not According to NASCAR Driver Kurt Bucsh

2015-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on Delaware Online: Once, he [Kurt Busch] said, they were in El Paso, Texas, where [Busch’s

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Be Careful Out There

2015-01-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you haven’t got your tickets yet for Rick Springfield’s concert at the Plaza Theatre on March 6. But if

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If there are Good Cops, then how can there be Bad Cops?

2015-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You always hear that, that not every cop is bad. But wouldn’t good cops arrest bad cops? Don’t good cops

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She’s Like a Tibetan Monk

2015-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

In a selfless act of political immolation, City Representative Cortney Niland threw her aspirations for continued public service on the

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In Defense of the Local Media

2015-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hey, times are hard in the print industry. You can only tighten your belt so much before you have to

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VS

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