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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 – United States of Secrets Part 1

2021-10-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Five Stars

2021-10-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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How the Other 9.9% Live

2021-10-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from Vox.com about the culture of the top decile: There are some defining characteristics of today’s

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Borderplex Alliance Wins Economic Development Award

2021-10-11 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, Slider One comment

From the El Paso Inc.: The Borderplex Alliance has been recognized with an international award for its work on economic

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Sunday Matinee Double Feature – Manhandled (1949), and Manhandled (1924)

2021-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Competing Systems of Power in America

2021-10-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The County’s Population Growth is Slower Than You Thought

2021-10-08 elrichiboy Fort Bliss, population, Slider Leave a comment

As slow as the County of El Paso’s population is growing, the reality is that it’s growing even slower. Starting

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Friday Short – My Sister and the Prince

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Induced Demand

2021-10-07 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench, TxDOT One comment

Here’s a story from Bloomberg CityLab about the futility of trying to reduce traffic congestion by widening freeways. “We know

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Eventually You Run Out of Other People’s Money

2021-10-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

In this illuminating story from Monica Ortiz Uribe and the El Paso Times, headlined Texas tax burden is heaviest on

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Retrovision: The Local Economy is Booming. For Contractors.

2021-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 7 August 2017. Good news, sports fans. The El Paso economy is growing, according to

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Ray Davies – 20th Century Man

2021-10-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Andrew Yang and Hubris Syndrome

2021-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

From Politico.com, here’s former presidential candidate Andrew Yang talking about the psychological effects of running for president: The historian Henry

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“This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy”

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The Con Man Who Ruined Portugal

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Something’s Rotten in Chucotown

2021-10-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Isabel Salcido, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Dr. Max Grossman and Brutus at El Paso Speak did the heavy lifting for this one. You remember the $413

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Sunday Matinee – The Enforcer

2021-10-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Mark Farner – Judgement Day Blues

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Saturday Matinee – A Secret Look at a Mexican Cartel’s Low-Tech Fentanyl Factory

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Life Choices

2021-10-02 elrichiboy ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Did you go to college? Have you/are you raising kids? Have you ever had a job? Can you imagine doing

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