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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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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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Who Is Behind the Prop K Propaganda?

2023-04-12 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Elections, Slider, The Environment One comment

We the people are supposed to know who is financing election high jinks. There are laws for that. Unfortunately, the

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Tollgate Canyon, New Mexico

2023-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

by John Mulhouse Take the Flat Way Home If you’re reading this it means I’ve managed to successfully upload the

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“Adios, Amigos”

2023-04-11 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, population, Taxes 7 comments

El Paso’s population growth continues to stagnate, according to this report in ElPasoMatters.org: El Paso County’s population grew by fewer

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CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON FATE OF STREETCARS, WHICH LOSE $2.9M PER YEAR, COSTING TAXPAYERS $44.61 PER RIDE!

2023-04-10 Max Grossman City Council, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 3 comments

by Max Grossman Tomorrow under agenda item 17 our City Council will decide the fate of our insolvent streetcars, which are

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“The Scapegoat”

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“Potatoes – South America’s Gift to the World”

2023-04-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Mary Pickford in D.W. Griffith’s “Friends”

2023-04-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Día de San Ricardo

2023-04-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

Today is the feast day of Saint Richard, or, as we say en español, el día de San Ricardo. So

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Our Forecast Budget Shortfall

2023-04-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Look up at that graph there. I lifted it from the budget presentation that the City gave to City Council

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“Bad Blonde”

2023-04-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Trials of Henry Kissinger”

2023-04-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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A Wonderful Life?

2023-03-31 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Strategic Plan of the City of El Paso – A Critique

2023-03-28 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Strategic Plan 2 comments

It’s good to have a plan. Like the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, if you don’t know where you’re going,

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“Trouble Is My Business”

2023-03-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Pandora Papers”

2023-03-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Palm Beach Story”

2023-03-22 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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God Bless Dee Margo

2023-03-20 Rich Wright Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 2 comments

Poor Dee Margo. He is completely out of touch. Here’s a paragraph from his recent response to an open letter

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“Stolen Face”

2023-03-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“A Plant’s World: The Intelligence of Plants”

2023-03-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Report From Juarez

2023-03-15 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

I am an accidental witness to recent turmoil in Juarez. Last Wednesday I walked into a riot. I was looking

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