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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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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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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

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Sunday Matinee: Farewell My Lovely

2018-03-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Robert Mitchum is one of the Hollywood stars I would have most like to share a bottle of tequila with.

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Those poor dears. They try so hard.

2018-03-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

This is the sidewalk on Cincinnati Street. You remember. The City just spent money to make it nice. They put

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City of Dust: Cedarvale, New Mexico

2018-02-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

2018-02-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Hitchcock film that may have escaped your notice. Here’s the plot summary from IMDb: A serial murderer is

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Golf Clubs

2018-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships One comment

Perhaps you saw this story in the El Paso Times about the public golf courses in the city. El Paso’s

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Elections, The Arena 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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It’s All About the Spin

2018-02-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships 4 comments

Did you see this story about El Paso’s newest Public Private Partnership? From the El Paso Times: Fivestars, a San

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Quality of Life

2018-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?

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The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses

2018-02-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained

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Sunday Matinee: Detour

2018-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

If this movie were any more noir, it would be a parody of itself. Here’s what IMDb had to say

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City of Dust: Trouble in Mind

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age

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Death and Taxes

2018-02-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council

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Survey Says:

2018-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see the results of this survey that KVIA did on putting the arena in Duranguito? ABC-7 recently conducted

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Sunday Matinee: Patterns

2018-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 movie with a script written by Rod Serling. It’s about office politics, and naked capitalism. Watch this

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All The News That May or May Not Exist

2018-02-07 elrichiboy Media, School Districts Leave a comment

Did you see the latest dustup over there at EPISD? From KVIA: EPISD District 7 Trustee Mickey Loweree said she

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Okay, I’m Running.

2018-02-06 elrichiboy City Council 12 comments

Friday I filed a Campaign Treasurers Appointment for a run to be the City Council Representative for District 8. That

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Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2018-02-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider Leave a comment

Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on

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DavidK vs. The El Paso Times

2018-02-06 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 3 comments

DavidK laments what he perceives as bias in the El Paso Times coverage of the local political scene, in this

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