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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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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 City Management, ballpark, City Council, 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 City Management, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, 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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Retrovision: They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2020-05-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 April 2015. Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group

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City of Dust: The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico

2020-05-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 4 comments

We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos

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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Slider, Coronavirus 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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Sunday Matinee: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here

2020-05-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube

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Retrovision: Who Represents El Paso?

2020-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Retrovision, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

This article originally appeared on 03 August 2015. If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City

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Ry Cooder: He’ll Have to Go

2020-05-08 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Tightening the Belt?

2020-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider 10 comments

In what world does cutting pay by five percent for the highest paid City staffers make sense? Tommy G is

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Debunking “Plandemic”

2020-05-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Video 2 comments
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The Harsh Future of El Paso

2020-05-06 elrichiboy The Arena, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Here’s a great read from Medium.com titled The Harsh Future of American Cities: On the nation’s current trajectory, one of

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The Big Pharma Covid 19 Conspiracy

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Quarantine, Coronavirus 4 comments
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My Lucky Day

2020-05-06 elrichiboy It's All Good, Just Kidding. Leave a comment

If I didn’t occasionally check my Spam box, I might have missed this email: Congratulation My name is Warren E.

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Viral Load

2020-05-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Some viruses are so strong, and they reproduce so rapidly in the human body, that just a little dose of

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Paul Foster Needs a Hobby

2020-05-04 elrichiboy The Arena, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 17 comments

Paul Foster inserted himself into the news cycle this week, with this email he sent to all the players on

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