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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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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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How About El Paso?

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

All you chile-heads have probably been following this story about Sriracha’s fight with the city of Irwindale, California. For those

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300 MPG Volkswagen Not Available in the USA

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that maintains that Americans are being denied the opportunity to buy cars with fuel-efficient technology because oil

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It’s a Good Day

2014-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Your life just got way better and you didn’t even know it. Here’s a story in which a World Bank

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Tarnished Brands: The Abuse of Trust

2014-03-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you saw this piece about the 120 most trusted brands in America. Brand management is serious business, and it

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We’re not in Kansas

2014-03-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from KSHB in Kansas City, explaining how police obtained a search warrant for a home which resulted

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Murder at Yankee’s Bar

2014-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in LaPolaka, a man was killed in Yankee’s Bar this weekend after getting into an argument

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They mean well, I think.

2014-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I don’t hate El Paso. I’m not against downtown development. What I hate are people who pretend that they know

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Leeser is kind of like Obama

2014-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Lots of the people who voted for Oscar Leeser, expecting Hope and Change, must be kind of disappointed that he’s

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The Big Picture

2014-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The sad part is that the Borderplex Alliance can’t brag about its successes. At least, not in El Paso. But

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The More Things Change . . .

2014-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the new commandant of the the Federal Police in Juarez, Jorge Armando Pavón

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Secret Emails and the Lizard People

2014-03-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

Every citizen of El Paso should be troubled by the City’s actions, and inactions, concerning the “secret” emails demanded by

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Downtown El Paso: The Land of Opportunity

2014-03-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news for all those ballpark advocates: There is still lots of opportunity in downtown El Paso! With the Southwestern

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Weekend at Fernie’s

2014-03-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the Diario about the guys in Juarez who were driving around with the corpse

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Meth Mango Recovered

2014-03-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You probably missed the story about the stolen 10 ton mango. That’s okay, it’s been found — with a meth

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Psycho-cybernetic Enhancements

2014-02-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m not talking cyborg. There’s a new generation of apps and websites that teach you to function better. According to

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A Structural Analysis of the Deep State

2014-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s an insightful analysis of how things work in America. There is the visible government situated around the Mall in

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A Plague of Biblical Proportions

2014-02-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It could happen here. An Arizona town is overrun with tiny pooches that are terrorizing children and defecating anywhere they

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Is the Lottery rigged?

2014-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

No, not at all. Every other institution in this country is hopelessly corrupt, but not the one that gives away

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Observations on the State of Journalism

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Time mgazine’s cover story on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was widely panned on the internet and social media, and

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Because El Paso

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The John Cook campaign launched their website this week. Here’s a link. You should look at it. Then you should

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