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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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Prince – Cream

2021-06-10 elrichiboy Music One comment
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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Quarantine, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 6 comments

There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus

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Insatiable Greed

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Economics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Wealth and income inequality is a big problem. Remember Supply Side Economics? From Wikipedia: In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the

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Joe T. Hodo – Fifis: ¡La Flandemia no existe!

2021-06-07 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – The Furies

2021-06-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Alan Jackson – In The Garden

2021-06-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Are We Ready For The Next Crisis?

2021-06-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – What In The World

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Alternatino – The Truth About Border Crossers

2021-06-04 elrichiboy alternatino Leave a comment
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More Good News From the Folks Running the City

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Good news, everybody. I know you’ve been worried about those investors from JP Morgan Chase. You know, the ones behind

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Sunday Matinee – Soldier of Fortune

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Jerry Lee Lewis – Just a Closer Walk With Thee

2021-05-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Why the China Covid Lab-Leak Theory is Being Taken Seriously

2021-05-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Children’s Hospital Lawsuit

2021-05-26 elrichiboy El Paso Children's Hospital, Commissioners Court, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a story about the El Paso Children’s Hospital, headlined Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old’s Death –

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions, Part 2

2021-05-26 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Law Enforcement, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The "Progressives" Leave a comment

Truth, Justice, and the American Way. These days, asking if truth and justice are the American way is a legitimate

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions

2021-05-25 Rich Wright Slider, Coronavirus 3 comments

Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab

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Remember Jane Shang?

2021-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider 2 comments

After Deputy City Manager Jane Shang left El Paso City Government with eleven months paid leave that made her eligible

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Border Boo Boos

2021-05-24 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Migration 2 comments

By Kent Paterson We’ve withstood some pretty fierce winds in the region lately. But so far, fortunately, no wind has

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Sunday Matinee – The Tattered Dress

2021-05-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Mark O’connor, et al – Life’s Railway To Heaven

2021-05-23 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

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