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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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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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Oh, the irony.

2016-12-26 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Poor Ann Morgan Lilly. She’s like the queen of a country that no longer exists, and she can’t quite come

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El Rocinante

2016-12-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Juarez is cheap. A dollar buys twenty pesos now. And

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Do You Mind?

2016-12-23 Reesa Turner Unreliable Narrative 6 comments

Integrative medicine is a big thing these days…exercise, deep breathing, yoga, acupuncture, art workshops. Aiming to calm the mind and

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Brooklyn Nights at Hope and Anchor Tonight

2016-12-22 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Hope and Anchor hosts DJ Farbeon tonight. He’ll be spinning True School Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Rock and House from

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Now we know who drives the truck.

2016-12-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 3 comments

I lifted this from the Paso del Sur’s Facebook page about their meeting with elected officials last Friday. For all

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Tuesday Night Fights: Mr. Ann Morgan Lilly vs. Mrs. Mayor

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story about the husband of former City Representative Ann Morgan Lilly allegedly assaulting Mayor Oscar Leeser’s

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Mexican Booze for the Holidays

2016-12-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Have you done your holiday shopping yet? Or maybe you need some libations for the end of year celebration. Either

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Did We Take Our City Back?

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There

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Breaking News: Dogfight at City Hall

2016-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate

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Go Local: Holiday Edition

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015]. Somehow the holidays always sneak up on me. I always used to

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Miles Davis with LCD Soundsystem

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

How’s your life? Do you sometimes feel like your existence is meaningless? Like the world is sucking pit of despair?

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El Arbolito Lives!

2016-12-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The Arbolito, that little dive bar that used to be located on Mariscal, next to the Día y Noche, is

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Hiking the Franklins

2016-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Friday woke up with charcoal gray clouds camped to the north. The polar vortex was coming, the weathermen said. Winds.

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Green Men’s Greensleeves

2016-12-17 GC Adams Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Times’ recent article by the Russians on the lady with 6,000 Christmas trees made me realize that

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Hal Marcus’ Hippie Holidaze

2016-12-16 elrichiboy Go Local, What to Do One comment

Don’t you just love Christmas shopping? Going to the mall, and looking for a parking spot, and then elbowing your

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Our Local Government In Action

2016-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Well, it looks like the City of El Paso will do a better thing than kick poor people out of

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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls Tonight!

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Whooee! Nick Waterhouse will be bringing his soulful, retro, boozy rhythm and blues to Tricky Falls tonight. Tickets available at

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Hip City at the Pizza Joint

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Punkabilly rockers Hip City play the Pizza Joint downtown tonight at 10 PM in a FREE all-age show. Here they

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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls on Friday

2016-12-15 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

This cat Nick Waterhouse is playing at Tricky Falls on Friday. Highly recommended. Tickets available from TicketFly. Check it out.

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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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  • 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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