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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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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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“Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

2025-06-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

2025-06-23 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation

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“The Spider”

2025-06-22 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

2025-06-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider 2 comments
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“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright War Crimes, Slider Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

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I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Slider, Politics 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

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Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a

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“Outside the Law”

2025-06-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

2025-06-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Juarez, Drugs, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

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“The League of Gentlemen”

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“1964: The Year That Changed America”

2025-06-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dr. M. C. Melanson’s One-Track Mind

2025-06-06 Bob Chessey El Paso, History, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey Narcotic traffickers aim to profit by delivering contraband across geopolitical lines; however, there are physicians who trespass

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El Paso is a Small Town

2025-06-02 Rich Wright Media, El Paso Times, Slider 3 comments

Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

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“Mr. Polaroid”

2025-05-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

2025-05-30 Rich Wright Slider, ballpark, Deck Park, population, The Arena 5 comments

From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long

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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

2025-05-29 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 5 comments

The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City

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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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