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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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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various

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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

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