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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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The Long Goodbye

2018-04-13 elrichiboy City of Dust, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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It’s All In The Spin

2018-04-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to

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Tales From the Morgue

2018-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue

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Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes

2018-04-11 elrichiboy Corrections, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric

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El Feis

2018-04-10 elrichiboy Perspectives 3 comments

I don’t understand the Facebook controversy. Did anyone think that Facebook wasn’t selling your information? Did you think it was

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El Paso is Unique

2018-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider 4 comments

Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other

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Sunday Matinee: God of War

2018-04-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it

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Still Lives: Taos

2018-04-05 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Art, New Mexico, Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Slider 3 comments

Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,

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The City’s Filmmaker Program

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

This from KVIA: The El Paso City Council voted to create a local Filmmaker Program. The city will award $30,000

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Waiting Room

2018-04-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting in a waiting room at the Hospital de la Familia, one floor up and a hundred yards from

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Champions League Today

2018-04-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Barcelona hosts Roma at 12:45. I think I’m going to La Esquina de Chihuahuas to watch the game and maybe

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Special City Council Meetings? Updated

2018-04-03 elrichiboy City Council 2 comments

I just heard (on the livestream of the City Council’s regular meeting) that videos of the El Paso City Council

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Sunday Matinee: Beyond Mombassa

2018-04-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Like last week’s trip to 1954 Machu Pichu, here’s a time travelogue to Kenya in 1956. Starring Cornel Wilde and

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Special Feature: Daughter of God

2018-03-30 elrichiboy Art, Movie Night, Video 3 comments

Here’s a trippy, tender, messed up, Keanu flick. It was originally released as Exposed to much less than stellar reviews,

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That’s the Ticket

2018-03-26 GC Adams Uncategorized 5 comments

Watch this video on YouTube During today’s walk, a Code Enforcement vehicle stopped in front of me and a woman

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Last Week, City Council Raised Your Taxes

2018-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

As I mentioned last week, but this time from the El Paso Inc.: The price that El Paso Electric must

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Sunday Matinee: Secret of the Incas

2018-03-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. No, really. Sort of. 1954, with Nicole Murray as a sexy Romanian Cold War

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Local Film Short: Nacido de Nuevo

2018-03-24 elrichiboy Art, Shorts, Video 2 comments

El Paso’s nascent film scene is happening right under our noses. Here’s an award-winning short from Los Angeles filmmaker Evan

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Since 1987, the County of El Paso has been getting a quarter of the sales tax collected in the city.

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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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  • Greg on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
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  • Jerry K on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
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