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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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An Arena? Really?

2017-01-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The

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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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EPEC At It Again

2017-01-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google

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It’s Election Time. Sort of.

2017-01-06 elrichiboy City Council, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season

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The Truth About Duranguito

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one

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Corruption at DHS

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve often wondered why the Juarez plaza is so hotly contested by Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations. I surmise that there’s

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The Texas Standard with Rich Wright

2017-01-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Yesterday we were driving up to Carlsbad Caverns and we heard this piece on the radio. I guess they were

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Renovations to Coronado’s Football Stadium?

2017-01-02 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Some people (you know who you are) have been speculating about whether some of the $75 million in bond money

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Time Flies

2016-12-31 GC Adams Slider 2 comments

Man, 2016 just flew by. It seems that the older I get, the faster time flies by, unless I’m listening

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Another Perspective by John G. Dungan

2016-12-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Frequent commenter John G. Dungan sent this in to remind us of our history. The constant push from City Council

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SWAT Nation: Welcome to Amerika!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s a disturbing video of a SWAT raid on some citizens’ house, taken from a documentary called Do Not Resist.

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Brutus Speaks!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Education, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak makes some good points with deeper implications, in this post titled EPISD bonds-story changes again.

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Mexican Gas

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico, Slider One comment

Multiple news sources report that the average price for gasoline in Mexico will rise from 14 to 20 percent in

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Make a Difference

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

People are wingeing all over my Facebook feed about this carrot-hybrid we elected to be president. Well, get used to

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Emily Davis Tour Kickoff at Proper Printshop Tonight!

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, music fans. El Paso’s songbird Emily Davis is playing a show at Proper Printshop to finance gas and ramen

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Our Economic Forecast

2016-12-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain

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What people watch

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times, delineating the most popular teevee shows in different markets. In El

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The People Speak!

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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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  • Mark Z on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Greg on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • Annony on New Chief, Same as the Old Chief
  • Jerry K on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • Jessamyn C Young on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • “Kansas City Confidential”
  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”
  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

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