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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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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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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

2015-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Coming Soon: Will Ballpark-gate Ruin Rick Perry’s White House Run?

2014-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let me just leave this here for now while I work on it. Maybe the indictments are already in the

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Bringing Business to El Paso: The Water Problem

2014-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You’ve probably read this story in the El Paso Times, about how El Paso is running out of water. The

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The Bane of QoL: O & M

2014-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years, when Fort Bliss was expanding and Juarez was

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Because They Care

2014-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. MountainStar Sports Group wants to save us money. According to this story in the El Paso

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Word of the Day

2014-12-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Corruption – dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers); source: www.merriam-webster.com Example

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Police Violence Isn’t New

2014-12-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a post from the Anunciation House blog recalling an earlier case of sudden death at the hands of peace

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Redevelopment Revisited

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How, do you suppose, will the “news” that El Paso’s under 35 population has the second lowest median income in

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Way Too Little, Too Late

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A local newspaper reported Saturday that Police Officer Jose Flores, one of El Paso’s Finest, was fired from the El

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Ouch

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a cartoon I lifted from Insight Crime, a website devoted to enlightening readers to the peculiarities of organized crime

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The Real Problems

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Atlantic, analyzing census date using a new tool from the U.S. Census Bureau. According

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The San Jacinto Plaza Blog

2014-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that there’s a blog detailing the progress of the San Jacinto Plaza renovation? Can you imagine a

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A Sobering Thought

2014-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Remember that the same people that take two years to renovate a one acre park, the same people who are

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Why El Paso Doesn’t Vote

2014-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in the El Paso Inc. reports that the city’s election participation rate is the worst in Texas. About

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”
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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

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