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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 Vanessa Johnson

    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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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 Texas State Government, Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, 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 Guest Column, Education, 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 Veritasium, Education Leave a comment
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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Slider, Public Transportation, 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 Law Enforcement, District Attorney, 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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“Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People.”

2021-07-16 elrichiboy TEDx Leave a comment
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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”
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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”
  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision
  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

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