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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 anonymous

    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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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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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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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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Quebrando Malo

2014-02-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the extended trailer for the Spanish Breaking Bad, set in Colombia. It’s exactly the same. Only different.

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We’re Number 46!

2014-02-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The United States, the world’s superpower, has been surrendering it’s moral high ground ever since, and probably before, 9/11. When

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Glass Beach Holiday

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been trying to figure out why the City’s recent branding efforts have been off-key. They refuse to acknowledge that

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Market Manipulation?

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting I noticed: The price of Western Refining (WNR) stock has dropped more than 15 percent since its

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“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

2014-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I’ve noticed that people who go to a name brand university, and even those who who go to a lower

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Stockton, The Future of El Paso

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I just came across this story about Stockton, California, in the Huffington Post. It sounds eerily familiar: A $47 million

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The Brownfield Empire

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If any of you who read El Chuqueño don’t read The Brownfield Empire, you are doing yourselves a disservice. Here’s

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