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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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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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Segundo Barrio

2020-06-18 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown, Economic Development, History, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s

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1959 Nero Wolfe Pilot

2020-06-17 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Is the Plaza Hotel Open?

2020-06-15 elrichiboy Breaking News, Economic Development One comment

Here’s a listing for the Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park I came across on hotels.com. I guess you could be one

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About the Cops

2020-06-14 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 6 comments

I was on the balcony at Tricky Falls a few years ago, talking to some guys who had come down

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As protests grow, big labor sides with police unions

2020-06-08 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 5 comments

This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, Alexia Fernández Campbell, Senior Reporter Labor unions exist to

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Pokey LaFarge: Something in the Water

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Living With Covid

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider 5 comments

Things are different now. If you get the Covid, you’re going to kill someone you love. Your grandmother. Your father.

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Leonard Cohen: Closing Time

2020-06-04 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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Economic Development?

2020-06-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Y’all remember when they pitched those 2102 Quality of Life bonds, they said it was “an economic development issue”. Here’s

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Andrew Frankel: Super-Human

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Et Tu, Brute?

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 4 comments

Well, it looks like Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak.com has gone dark. His last post was May 17. Brutus did

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Flattening the Curve

2020-06-01 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Your Health 4 comments

Expectations drive the economy. Economists measure consumer confidence. The futures markets are self-fulfilling prophecies, to a degree. Politicians know that.

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Retrovision: Six Years On

2020-05-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This article originally appeared on 08 March 2019. On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the

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Retrovision: The Dark Ages in El Paso

2020-05-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 Nov 2019. Are you interested in a great job in El Paso? Get on

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“Card Tricks: How El Paso’s 2012 ‘Quality of Life’ Bond Election Got Riddled With Flimflam”

2020-05-28 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The "Progressives", The Arena One comment

Here’s a piece on Medium.com written by veteran reporter Debbie Nathan, chronicling the run-up to the election. . . .

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The Robots Have Come for Your Job

2020-05-27 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Technology One comment

I came home the other day and some guy was messing with my gas meter. Turns out that Texas Gas

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El Paso Post-Pandemic

2020-05-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The future will look different. But let’s hope we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past. For the past couple

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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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Webb Pierce: There Stands the Glass

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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These Robots are Coming for Our Jobs

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Technology, Video Leave a comment
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