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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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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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  • 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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Richard Burton in “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”

2023-11-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“How the World’s Smartest Criminals Were Caught By a Salami Sandwich”

2023-11-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Paso Has a Dumpster Problem

2023-11-21 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Ellen Smythe, Slider, The Environment 7 comments

I live by El Paso High. The official name of the subdivision is Alexander Heights, but no one calls it

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El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle

2023-11-19 Rich Wright Widening I-10, Deck Park, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT Leave a comment

An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on

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Marlene Dietrich in “The Blue Angel”

2023-11-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water

2023-11-13 Rich Wright Slider, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elizabeth Triggs, TIRZs 2 comments

From the dead tree edition of the El Paso Inc.: Two years after it was rezoned from farm/ranch land to

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Rita Hayworth in “Gilda”

2023-11-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Eating the Rich did for Japan”

2023-11-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Teflon Donna

2023-11-08 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 2 comments

You read that the effort to recall District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez failed to get the 4,000+ signatures it would

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Press Release for Effort to Recall Cassandra Hernandez

2023-11-07 elrichiboy Gassandrgate, Cassandra Hernandez, Slider One comment
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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

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“Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles”

2023-11-04 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Sapphire”

2023-10-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Origins of the Middle East conflict”

2023-10-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El hermano mayor.

2023-10-24 Rich Wright Juarez, Mexico, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Check out this promotional video for Torre Centinela: No, it’s not a sci-fi movie about a near future dystopia. That

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Barbs along the Rio Grande

2023-10-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson A pleasant and quiet day prevailed just above the International Dam on the Rio Grande near the

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All You Need to Know About Prop 11

2023-10-17 elrichiboy Elections, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

From Ballotpedia.com: The measure would amend section 59 of Article 16 of the Texas Constitution to authorize the state legislature

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“Two of a Kind’

2023-10-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Great Awakening”

2023-10-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Sacred Cows

2023-10-14 Rich Wright Politics, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright Every election year you hear it. “Is this the best we can do?” For president, we’ve got

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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

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