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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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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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CITY BUDGET TO INCREASE TO $1.3B FOR FY 2024, HERNANDEZ WANTS MORE DEBT

2023-07-16 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City

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“A Woman’s Vengeance”

2023-07-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Climate Change – Averting Catastrophe”

2023-07-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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DID A THIRD INDIVIDUAL USE HERNANDEZ’S GAS CARD?

2023-07-14 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, FOAC, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Max Grossman Rep. Cassandra Hernandez purchased 35% of all gas purchased by the City Council and Mayor in 2022,

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The Brady List

2023-07-13 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, Crime, Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso Police Department announced the arrests of five of its officers in connection with three separate

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“The Man From Cairo”

2023-07-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Just Emerged in Antarctica Terrifies the Whole World”

2023-07-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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JORDAN AND HERNANDEZ ARE CONNECTED TO DEBORAH PAZ!

2023-07-06 Max Grossman City Council, Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman Several days ago, a PAC called “Women’s Voices for Political Reform” proclaimed that on July 5 they

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Have You Lost Your Voice?

2023-07-04 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

Some of my best followers can’t comment on some of the posts. I don’t know why that is. Hackers? Extraterrestrials?

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“Nightmare”

2023-07-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2023-07-02 Rich Wright Slider, Art, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 06 June 2013. This post has been slightly edited. As an El Pasoan, I appreciate

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John Fogerty “110 in the Shade”

2023-06-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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City Settles Taser Death Lawsuit for $600,000

2023-06-28 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, Dionne Mack, El Paso Times, Karla Nieman, Slider Leave a comment

Did I ever tell you that the El Paso Police Department is taser happy? Here’s more of the latest evidence,

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Rightsizing El Paso’s Government

2023-06-28 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 3 comments

by Rich Wright When you’re in a hole, stop digging. It’s time to acknowledge that the Borderplex Alliance’s plan for

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CITY SUED OVER TWO STREET PAVING CONTRACTS WORTH $34 MILLION

2023-06-27 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Erik Elken of KVIA aired an exclusive report last night revealing that ZTEX Construction, Inc. filed two

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“Black Angel”

2023-06-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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You Are Still Paying for the Great Wolf Lodge Fiasco

2023-06-24 Rick Bonart TIRZ 13, City Council, Economic Development, Elizabeth Gibson, Slider, Taxes, TIRZ 10 2 comments

by Rick Bonart While Council investigates trivial gas card infractions, millions of public dollars are being wasted. Left unchecked, these

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“On the Battlefields of the Future”

2023-06-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Debbie Nathan on the PDNG and Plan El Paso

2023-06-21 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, Downtown, History, Slider 3 comments

Lest We Forget Here’s a piece local hero Debbie Nathan wrote for Texas Monthly back in 2013. These days El

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The El Paso Times Reports on the FOAC and Gassandragate

2023-06-19 Rich Wright Corruption, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, El Paso Times, Slider One comment

Maybe you didn’t see this story in the El Paso Times. The story was posted on ElPasoTimes.com on Friday, June

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