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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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The Borderland Expressway

2021-07-28 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning 10 comments

Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it

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The City of El Paso is Chueco

2021-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Ethics, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to accept a recommendation to reallocate $15 million in federal funding for

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Temptations/Black Sabbath Mashup

2021-07-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Your Representatives in Austin

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, Texas State Government, The Trench 5 comments

Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of

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My TEDx Talk

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Slider, TEDx Leave a comment

In 2013, a friend of mine asked me to talk about Juarez at TEDx El Paso. I probably would have

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Sunday Matinee – I Became a Criminal

2021-07-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jamie Wilson – Ain’t No Grave

2021-07-25 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – How America Bankrupted Its Cities: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

2021-07-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Urban Planning Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Day Shift

2021-07-23 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Harvard Business Review on the The Sunk Cost Fallacy

2021-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Here’s an article from the HBR on better decision making. Have you continued with a project long after you should

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Tom Petty – Lost highway

2021-07-22 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Why Target Pot?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Marijuana, Yvonne Rosales One comment

Our new District Attorney Yvonne Rosales recently asked City Council to give her office $72,000 for a machine that can

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Climate Town – Can’t We Just Buy Our Way Out Of Climate Change?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Xavier Miranda on Back to School

2021-07-21 Xavier Miranda Education, Guest Column, School Districts, Slider One comment

Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are

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Veratasium – The Biggest Myth in Education

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Education, Veritasium Leave a comment
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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

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The New DA

2021-07-19 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Slider, Yvonne Rosales 3 comments

The office of District Attorney for the County of El Paso is the most powerful elected office in El Paso.

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Sunday Matinee – The 13th Letter

2021-07-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Ry Cooder – Jesus On The Mainline

2021-07-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Cities on Speed: Bogota Change / The Inspiring Story Antanas Mockus

2021-07-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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