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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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  • Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

    2025-07-15 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre

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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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“The Breaking Point”

2023-05-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!

2023-05-27 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Corruption, FOAC, Slider 2 comments

by Max Grossman In its reporting on the City gas card scandal, KVIA has reminded our community why it is

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“The American Middle Class Crisis”

2023-05-27 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Max Grossman: “VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF CITY GAS CARD USAGE SOON TO BE RELEASED”

2023-05-25 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, FOAC, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman As we learned from Edmundo Calderon, Chief Internal Auditor of the City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former

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Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso

2023-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

by Rich Wright From The Wealth of Nations: “To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of

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What do you get the man who has everything?

2023-05-22 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, TIRZ 13, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

by Rich Wright How about a man made river? According to this story from the daily rag, El Paso Water

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Audrey Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart in “Sabrina”

2023-05-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court”

2023-05-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY

2023-05-19 Max Grossman City Council, Great Wolf Resorts, Karla Nieman, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

by Max Grossman Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both

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DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS

2023-05-17 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

by Max Grossman According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives

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“SALTY” NELL

2023-05-16 Bob Chessey History, Slider 5 comments

by Bob Chessey El Paso’s First Career Customs Inspectress When crossing an international bridge from Juarez to enter El Paso,

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Our Taxing Politicians

2023-05-15 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, El Paso Delegation, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, Mary Gonzalez, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

You read here that email that Max Grossman sent out, decrying the proposed $10 increase for cars registered El Paso

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“Dragonwyck”

2023-05-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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“The Phenomenon”

2023-05-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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A Little Corrupt

2023-05-12 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, Corruption, Slider 3 comments

As the famous Jewish philosopher said, “If I can’t trust you with gas cards, how can I trust you with

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A Tax By Any Other Name

2023-05-10 Max Grossman Cesar Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, Mary Gonzalez, Slider, Widening I-10 4 comments

by Max Grossman On May 3, the Texas House passed HB 78, which would increase the registration fee for a

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“Leave Her to Heaven”

2023-05-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy”

2023-05-06 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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About Gassandragate

2023-05-05 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Corruption, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Yesterday I went to the City of El Paso’s Financial Oversight Audit Committee’s meeting at City Hall. It was great.

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“Gone, Fishing”

2023-05-05 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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