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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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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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Saturday Matinee – Murder Incorporated: Contract Killers for the American Mafia

2021-10-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

2021-10-29 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Blame It On the Firemen

2021-10-28 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Law Enforcement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

And the cops. That’s what other cities have done when their fiscal profligacy has run their finances into a ditch.

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Scorched Earth

2021-10-27 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

Way back in 2014, when I was trying to figure out the twisted logic of the City’s plans, I wrote

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Who Will Isabel Salcido Represent?

2021-10-26 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Isabel Salcido, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

If she’s re-elected? This notification appeared in today’s City Council meeting agenda: For notation pursuant to Section 2.92.080 of the

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The Onion – Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?

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How Much Would the “Arena” Cost today?

2021-10-25 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

Tomorrow, City Council will vote on whether or not to tell City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to come up with a

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Sunday Matinee – Nazi Agent

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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Lord Don’t Forsake Me

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Saturday Matinee – The Challenges of Income Inequality

2021-10-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The 9.9% vs. Housing for the Rest of Us

2021-10-23 elrichiboy Inequality, Welcome to Monday 2 comments

Here’s another take on housing and social mobility from the guy who wrote that book about the 9.9 percent. From

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El Paso is a Third World Country

2021-10-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Public Health, Slider, The Environment 4 comments

Since August 15, El Paso has been pouring raw sewage into the Rio Grande. From BorderReport.com: Between 3 million and

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Friday Short – Swing for the Fences

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Friday Short – Sparks!

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Vote No on Prop 2

2021-10-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, TxDOT 6 comments

Did you know that blight was a condition to creating a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in Texas? From the Texas

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Grandpa’s Cough Medicine – The Murder Chord

2021-10-20 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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PBS: La Frontera with Pati Jinich – Miles from Nowhere

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“Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds” – The Guardian

2021-10-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Public Private Partnerships, Slider 7 comments

The Guardian says that fossil fuel industries are welfare queens. The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every

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How Fast is Your Internet?

2021-10-18 elrichiboy Opportunity Costs Leave a comment

I have to assume that if you’re reading this, you have a computer that’s connected to the internet. And fast

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Sunday Matinee – King of the Underworld

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