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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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Who’s driving this truck?

2016-12-15 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council instead of the other way around. Like this

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Life in the Echo Chamber

2016-12-14 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Here’s what District 3’s sweetheart Emma Acosta had to say in this week’s El Paso Inc. “You keep hearing that

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Never Give Up

2016-12-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider Leave a comment

Remember Jack Handey? He went to Eastwood, and wrote Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live, back when SNL was good.

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Just . . . Yes

2016-12-13 GC Adams Uncategorized 4 comments

El Paso just had its annual three day event we like to call “Fall.” I’ve read about other places having

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Día de Nuestra Señora

2016-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Yesterday I went to Juarez for the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the

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Journalist Murdered in Ciudad Chihuahua

2016-12-13 elrichiboy Media, Mexico Leave a comment

According to news reports, a radio journalist was shot dead in his driveway in Ciudad Chihuahua on Saturday morning. From

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Urban Revitalization, Winston-Salem Style

2016-12-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article about Winston-Salem from Politico, from a series called What Works. The series is dedicated to exploring the

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The K Club is Open Again

2016-12-12 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

According to reliable taxista Benjamin, the Kentucky Club is open again. “They’ve been open about eight days,” he told me

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Curiouser and Curiouser

2016-12-12 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 3 comments

Isn’t it weird that self-professed Chicano political blogger Jaime Abeytia is in favor of evicting the abuelitas from Duranguito so

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Cichon to D.C.?

2016-12-12 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Do you ever shop at Albertson’s? I only shop there sometimes. I run in for a bottle of wine, maybe,

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Glasbox Speakeasy Show: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar

2016-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight at the Glasbox: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar play a Speakeasy show. I dug up a video or Mr.

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Retrovision: Sanctuary

2016-12-10 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on June 6, 2012. Just like drinking at home I went to my favorite bar last

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Mexican Boxer Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. Murdered in Guadalajara

2016-12-09 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Mexican boxer Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. was found murdered in a jeep near his home in Guadalajara this morning. Mr. Gonzalez

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College Ultimate: UNC vs. Pitt

2016-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here are 28 minutes of two of the best pretty good college Ultimate teams in the country duking it out

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Juarez Sunday Afternoon

2016-12-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m sitting in a cowhide chair at a cowhide table in the Mariachi Bar, just off Avenida Juarez, a block

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The Latest Dope on Drinking in Juarez

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

El Diario reports that, starting today, the bars and restaurants and grocery stores that sell alcohol in Juarez will be

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Unreliable?

2016-12-08 Reesa Turner Navel Gazing One comment

A lifetime ago, some idiot with a Napoleon complex tried to paint me out in black and white…you’re too much

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Breaking News

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Downtown, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

I know reason and common sense have no place in local government, but I found out some things that I

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La Puerta Siga Cerrado

2016-12-07 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club is still closed after denying admittance to the governor of the Raramuri community in Juarez in November.

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Why can’t they just talk to us like we’re adults?

2016-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Opposition to the arena is pretty widespread. At least, opposition to putting it in the proposed location. Texas State Senator

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