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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 anonymous

    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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  • 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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The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

2026-04-23 Bob Chessey Law Enforcement, Drugs, History, Slider Leave a comment

Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support

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Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

2026-04-22 Rich Wright Cost of Living, El Paso, Slider One comment

You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live.

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We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

2026-04-21 Kent Paterson New Mexico, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is

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Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

2026-04-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

2026-04-18 elrichiboy Slider, Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Now We Know Their Names”

2026-04-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, El Paso, Slider, Video Leave a comment
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Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

2026-04-16 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Data Centers, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, Water One comment

By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting

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Paul and Julie Ten Years After

2026-04-13 Rich Wright Juarez Walking Tour, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like

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“The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

2026-04-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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(Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

2026-04-09 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should

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Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

2026-04-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

2026-04-03 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider Leave a comment

(Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how

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People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

2026-03-31 Kent Paterson Slider, Data Centers, Meta, Project Jupiter 3 comments

By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open

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Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Slider 2 comments

by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s

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“Hangover Square”

2026-03-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

2026-03-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots

2026-03-19 Kent Paterson Uncategorized 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Here’s a binational border institution many of you might haven’t heard of-the wordy Joint Advisory Committee for

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“The Scarlet Hour”

2026-03-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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El Paso is Falling

2026-03-13 Rich Wright El Paso, City Council, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Water, EPISD, Slider 2 comments

The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the

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“Writing Doom” – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence

2026-03-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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