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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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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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“PROJECT-19”

2022-12-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Future of Downtowns

2022-12-09 elrichiboy City Management, City Council, Downtown, Slider One comment

The City of El Paso (that is you, the taxpayer) is spending millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of

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El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2022-12-08 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Times, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case”

2022-12-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Oak Ridge Boys – “Life’s Railway to Heaven”

2022-12-04 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“The Propaganda War Waged Over the Iraq Invasion”

2022-12-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Specter of Nuclear War, Revisited (New Mexico, 2022)”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

This was written by a girl I get to sleep with sometimes: I’ve spent a lot of time in the

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“The Case of the Missing Puzzle Box”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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Humphrey Bogart in “Dead End”

2022-11-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Harmonizing Four – “We’re Crossing Over”

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“Child Warfare”

2022-11-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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City of Dust “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” Wall Calendar

2022-11-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse It’s almost Thanksgiving and that must mean it’s time for the 2023 City of Dust “Abandoned New

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“Phantom Lady”

2022-11-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The JockStrap Raiders”

2022-11-18 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Tales from the Tour Bus: Blaze Foley Intro

2022-11-17 elrichiboy Tales from the Tour Bus, Slider Leave a comment
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Alan Gogoll – “Mulberry Mouse”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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City of Dust – The Albuquerque Rail Yards

2022-11-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider One comment

by John Mulhouse Train I Ride The Albuquerque Rail Yards are a massive complex sprawling over 27.3 acres and sitting

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60 Minutes – “Buses from the Border: New York strained by migrants caught in a broken system”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider, Venezuela Leave a comment
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The Half House

2022-11-15 elrichiboy History Leave a comment

Trish Long talks about the Shanghai Grocery in this piece in the El Paso Times: The Shanghai Grocery was located

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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

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