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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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Spice Up Your life, Love

2019-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

Have you noticed that jalapeños aren’t hot anymore? Agronomists have Burbanked the heat right out of them. These days if

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A Private Letter To Paul Foster

2019-05-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, Uncategorized 8 comments

If you’re not Paul Foster, please stop reading this. Pablo, Can I call you Pablo? I mean, it’s just us.

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Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M

2019-05-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,

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Welcome to the Apocalypse

2019-05-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Trolley 5 comments

It’s happening. This was the sign taped to the door of the Pat O’Rourke Center today. Meanwhile the trolley glides

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2019-05-15 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2019-05-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Go Local, Slider, Taxes One comment

This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,

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Life Lessons

2019-05-13 elrichiboy Ethics, Perspectives Leave a comment

Here’s some wisdom from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s main man, via getpocket.com. To get what you want, deserve what you

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Will Paul Foster Do Better?

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

Now that the Borderplex Real Estate Investment Trust has sold its downtown real estate assets to Paul Foster’s Franklin Mountain

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Common Sense

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what

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Are the Wheels Coming Off?

2019-05-09 elrichiboy Breaking News, Downtown, Slider 6 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns

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Los Gallos Negros

2019-05-07 elrichiboy Politics 16 comments

We are Los Gallos Negros, a collective of people fighting to retake control of City Government. Los Gallos Negros are

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Was Lost Dog a Referendum on City Government?

2019-05-07 elrichiboy City Council, Great Wolf Resorts, Lost Dog, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 6 comments

Max Grossman points out the the ballot ordinance to save Lost Dog got more votes than Mayor Dee Margo did

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Water Parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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“Bienvenidos, Heather Wilson”

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Heather Wilson, UTEP One comment

Here’s a letter of support for UTEP’s new president Heather Wilson from retired judge Luis Aguilar that appeared in the

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Sunday Matinee: Assassin’s Tale

2019-05-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s an action flick with plenty of murder and mayhem and coping. Check it out.

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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As Goes the Golf Course, So Goes the City

2019-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the City isn’t going to bail out the Vista Hills Country

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Southern Rock

2019-05-02 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment

Like the Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard had a baby raised by wolves. Check it out.

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Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions

2019-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of

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Retrovision: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About TIRZs*

2019-04-29 elrichiboy Lost Dog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. This article originally appeared on 23 May 2018. What is a Tax

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