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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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Friday Short: Le Boche

2020-02-14 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Amigo the Devil: Hell and You

2020-02-13 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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City of El Paso #1 for Certificates of Obligation Debt in Texas

2020-02-12 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Woohoo! Yeah, the Miners suck, again, those poor dears. And people are running away from El Paso like it’s on

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The Rise and Fall of Jeffrey Epstein: The Story of How He Didn’t Kill Himself

2020-02-11 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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No Pro Sports in the Arena?

2020-02-11 elrichiboy The Arena, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an

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Betty Boop: Riding the Rails

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Someday Matinee: Hedy Lamarr in The Female Animal

2020-02-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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City To Give $2.4 Million in Cash to Fund Downtown Apartments

2020-02-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office

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Friday Short: Box 616

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MCAD, Parks, and Libraries to Merge?

2020-02-06 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

That’s the latest rumor to emanate from the bowels of City Hall. According to the rumor, the City of El

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People, Poverty, and Narco-Violence

2020-02-06 elrichiboy Mexico 2 comments

Here’s a good article examining the root causes of Mexico’s violent drug trade. The narcos I spoke with do not

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Juarez Walking Tour Reviews

2020-02-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Most El Pasoans think Juarez begins and ends at the strip. If they go to Juarez, they get as far

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Wealth Inequality and Income Segregation

2020-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that

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The City Can’t Stop Lying

2020-02-04 elrichiboy The Arena, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a Steve Jobs quote: A players hire A players, but B players hire C players and C players hire

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Hunt Builds Communities

2020-02-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Really. That’s what they do. They got rich building housing for military families, all over the world. If you believe

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Sunday Matinee: Algiers

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Time to Pay Your Property Taxes Again

2020-01-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

It’s that time again. Your property taxes are due without penalty by January 31. The riches are shuffling and refinancing

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Balming Tiger: Armadillo

2020-01-29 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Intruder in the Dust

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Friday Short: How NOT to Get a Divorce from Your Wife from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

2020-01-24 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

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  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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  • “Death of a Guerilla: How the CIA Hunted Down Che Guevara”

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