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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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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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Getting What You Pay for?

2020-08-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:

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Sunday Matinee: Scandal Sheet

2020-08-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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El Paso’s Climate Refugees

2020-07-31 elrichiboy Economic Development, Climate Change, Migration, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the

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Mexico 1939

2020-07-29 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment
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Agents Provocateur

2020-07-28 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

Agents provocateur are a standard element of the anarchist playbook. They’ll get in with some peaceful protestors, and then break

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It’s the Water

2020-07-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health Leave a comment

Alert reader Mr. Natural tipped me to this article from NewAtlas.com: A new systematic review of more than a dozen

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Amazon is Coming

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company

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Sunday Matinee: Dear Murderer

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America

2020-07-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement 10 comments

From the aforementioned document: First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

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CJNG on Display

2020-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, Mexico 2 comments

This is, purportedly, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, displaying their firepower in Mexico. Here they are in the town of

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What Are Your Neighbors Up To?

2020-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 10 comments

Did you see this story in the news? From OPB.org: In the early hours of July 15, after a night

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AMF

2020-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, population, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Good news, everybody. According to recently released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, between July 2018 and July 2019, the

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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Rattlesnake Milk: Dave Dudley

2020-07-14 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street

2020-07-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Why Our Taxes are High and Our Streets are Bad

2020-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

You could write it off to the City’s excessive spending. And you’d be right. The City is drunk on spending

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Friday Short: Dust

2020-07-10 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Coke Dealing in Juarez

2020-07-09 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, Video Leave a comment

With El Paso in a supporting role. This documentary originally aired in September, 2019.

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The Fiscal Ship is Sinking

2020-07-06 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a news flash from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso leads major Texas cities in debt not approved by

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Carlsbad Caverns Park Ranger Shoots, Kills, Speeder

2020-07-01 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

From KOB.com, an Albuquerque TV station: Recently released videos from a body-camera worn by a National Park Ranger at Carlsbad

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