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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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Jobs Report

2019-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore reports, via his El Paso Matters twitter feed, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that things in

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Political Theater

2019-08-21 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Yesterday City Council overrode Mayor Margo’s veto, allowing the city to raise tax rates for the third year in a

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Tommy Gonzalez Is Pissed Off

2019-08-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 13 comments

Here’s what City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said in an interview with CBS4Local: Gonzalez also listed iFly and Top Golf as

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The Cost of Living Well

2019-08-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This

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F is for Forget About it

2019-08-16 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider 3 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is the only public school district

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The Business of Government

2019-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 5 comments

I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:

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Passing the Buck

2019-08-14 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

KVIA reports that Mayor Dee Margo vetoed the tax increase that City Council approved. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on

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Instagramable

2019-08-12 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

This is the newest hip marker in Juarez, on the east end of the pedestrian mall on dieciseis, a block

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Trench Warfare

2019-08-12 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Those nice people at the Texas Department of Transportation are considering widening the freeway in Downtown El Paso, eliminating lots

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Revelation

2019-08-10 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would

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Does He, or Doesn’t he?

2019-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

There has been some speculation lately about Mayor Margo’s motives for endorsing some of his political positions. An ethics complaint

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What’s Good for the Goose

2019-08-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Popular Italian tenor Max Grossman sent me an email this week that contained this interesting information: The Mayor of El

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Retrovision: The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2019-08-01 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 03 June 2015. How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. —

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Clank Clank Clank Went the Trolley

2019-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 4 comments

The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost

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The Day the Secret Service Killed the President

2019-07-29 elrichiboy Video 2 comments

Accidentally, of course. Here’s a documentary that posits that President Kennedy was killed by a new Secret Service agent, and

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Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2019-07-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property

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Speaking of Tortillas

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Did you remember that the Rib Hut on Mesa has $1.50 burritos on Saturdays? You can pick up a dozen

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Mmm good!

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

I haven’t tasted these tortillas yet, but they smell delicious.

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Surprise, Surprise!

2019-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

You know, the City used to justify municipal extravagance with the rationalization that we need to swing our tax base

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Retrovision: What’s Wrong With El Paso

2019-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2012, shortly after man harnessed fire and before the invention of the wheel.

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