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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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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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About the Lost Dog TIRZ

2018-07-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 6 comments

Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that

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More Lies From Our Friends In City Government

2018-07-12 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 comments

Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center

2018-07-09 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 9 comments

I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our

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Sunday Matinee: Kiss Me Deadly

2018-07-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Mike Hammer at his glorious best. There’s a lot in this movie. A 1951 Jaguar XK 120 Roadster. A

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On The Road Again

2018-07-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth

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How To Live in El Paso: Car-Camping

2018-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This 4th of July we went car-camping. I’ve slept on the ground a lot. I used to backpack, hiking into

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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The Stanton Street Bike Lane

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 7 comments

To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each

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Still No Ethics (Revision)

2018-07-02 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics 2 comments

Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s

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What Are We To Do?

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Elections, Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”

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Que se descanse en paz

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Juarez, Media Leave a comment

If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across

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Sunday Matinee: Black Widow

2018-07-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a

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“The Future of Cities”

2018-06-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is

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It’s Class War

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Perspectives, Slider 2 comments

Here’s District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You develop

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Sunday Matinee: Blood Relative

2018-06-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

They say it’s a nail biting action thriller. Watch this video on YouTube The acting is a little wooden, but

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