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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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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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Downtown Parking

2013-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

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American Democracy Unmasked

2013-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

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The Middle Class is Obsolete

2013-11-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

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More on Dwntwn

2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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The End of the Interwebs

2013-11-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

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Dwntwn, Fast and Furious

2013-11-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in

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Deming Sued for Sodomizing Civilian

2013-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a police stop gone wrong. Very wrong. And they have duck races, too. [Update]: It

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Mr. Crazy Knows Best

2013-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Mr. Crazy said it best: I came to the conclusion that even though I’m gonna have to wear

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Times up and out

2013-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times parent corporation, citing the soft economy and increased on-line competition, layed off 19 people this week,

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The Moving Target

2013-10-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did anyone notice the cognitive dissonance in the noise coming out of the ballpark crowd? I am really trying to

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Promoting Downtown El Paso

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Promoting higher population densities in the urban core is a good thing. Higher population densities, and better public transportation, yield

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Deadspin on Chihuahuas

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two-word team names are minor league baseball’s bread and butter, and while the Desert Gators and Sun Dogs sound like

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Brand El Paso (fixed)

2013-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Mithoff Burton Partners (“where creativity goes to die,” as one commenter put it) were given $300,000 by the City of

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In Defense of the Ballpark

2013-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a video from El Paso Triple A Baseball (I guess) helping you to understand the noble goals MountainStar Sports

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Ortega’s Gambit

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

You’ve read that Steve Ortega has moved to quash his deposition, and the attempt to sift his emails relating to

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Alejandro Escovedo at Tricky Falls

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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City Slogans

2013-10-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s an article from the Atlantic on new city slogans for 2011. Even the worst is better than It’s All

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