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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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Falta de Agua

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario this week detailing the challenges some homes in Juarez are having with water in

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$55M Manufacturing Plant

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s lead story in the El Paso Inc. is about the SeaDoo company opening up a new $55 million

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Mushroom Management Revisited

2014-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s an interesting article from this week’s El Paso Inc. The story explains how El Pasoans will start drinking “purified”

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Regarding the Lincoln Center

2014-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The city is making some half-hearted, too-little-too-late attempt to save Lincoln Center. I’m not surprised. Those nefarious powers that be

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Welcome to Amerika

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story about a DEA raid in Alpine, Texas, that should raise some serious concerns about the country we

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Coincidence?

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is sidelining City Manager Joyce Wilson related to the Open Records request now percolating through the Texas Court of Appeals?

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Question

2014-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

This week’s Question and Answer session in the El Paso Inc. is an interview with Patrick Schaefer, Executive Director of

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Devitalizing Downtown

2014-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Remember when Billy Abraham was the bad guy? He didn’t maintain all his downtown properties. “Demolition by neglect,” the pundits

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2014-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Where I went to college, I had to take a class in horse trading. And one of the lessons was

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El Paso: It’s Almost Good

2014-05-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, City Council will ask Joyce Wilson to stand out of the

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

2014-05-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Uncategorized 4 comments

Well, just like I predicted, the El Paso City Council has offered the job of City Manager to former Irving,

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Spring in El Paso

2014-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The wind chuffs at a respectably constant 20+ miles per hour, with occasional gusts of forty or fifty or sixty.

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Best Friends Forever

2014-05-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I don’t want to queer the deal by pointing it out, but El Paso finally has an effective voice in

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The Die is Cast

2014-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You have, by now, no doubt, seen the list of candidates for El Paso’s next City Manager. I’m opining that

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The Mennonite Connection

2014-04-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece about Mennonites smuggling cocaine into Canada: Jacob Fehr was sentenced last week to seven years in prison

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At least they’re not peeing on the Alamo

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

He probably thought it was just any old historic mission: A judge ordered a 23-year-old El Paso man to spend

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Is it trickle down economics if someone’s peeing on your leg?

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

More good news for the people who are responsible for El Paso’s economic development, the Borderplex Alliance. Business is booming

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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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