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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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Some questions about the latest police shooting

2015-08-12 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

How about this account from the El Paso Times of what happened during the police shooting on Dyer last week:

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Throwing Other People’s Money Around

2015-08-10 elrichiboy Politics One comment

The El Paso Times ran an editorial Sunday that was atypically critical of city government. The El Paso City Council’s

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Checks and Balances, El Chuco Style

2015-08-10 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media 3 comments

The United States runs by a system of checks and balances. If the executive and the legislative branches disagree, then

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The El Paso Police Shot Somebody, Maybe

2015-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From this story in the El Paso Times: A man was shot and killed Thursday night in a parking lot

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Not Too Bad If You’ve Got Low Standards, Part 2

2015-08-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see this article on clickbait website WalletHub.com? It claims that, among big cities in the U.S., El Paso

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Another Two Bite the Dust

2015-08-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 4 comments

The bar business is dynamic. The barriers to entry in Texas are relatively small, and almost everyone who’s been in

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The Price of Gasoline: Updated

2015-08-05 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

Update: According to this story in yesterday’s English language daily, business is good for Western Refining. Western Refining beat analysts’

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The Lives and Deaths of Jack Thompson: Updated

2015-08-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Update: I emailed Jason McGahan, the author The Chicago cocaine kingpin who was a federal informant, the original piece in

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The Price of Gasoline

2015-08-04 elrichiboy Economic Development 4 comments

One time, years ago, I stopped for gas at the 7 Eleven at the corner of Mesa and University. At

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Who Represents El Paso?

2015-08-03 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City Council meetings on the internet, you might not

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The Lives and Deaths of Jack Thompson

2015-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Jack Thompson was one of those oversized personalities that El Paso frequently gives birth to. Jack was a drug dealer.

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How to Live in El Paso: Rosco’s Burger Inn

2015-08-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 5 comments

In and Out? Fuddrucker’s? Johnny Rockets? Blake’s? And even (heresy alert) Whataburger? Forget it. El Paso has lots of great

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The Onion: “It’s not funny anymore.”

2015-07-31 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

You’re familiar with the Onion, the satirical magazine and website that pokes fun at American foibles. Well, yesterday they posted

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More of the Same

2015-07-31 elrichiboy It's All Good, Politics Leave a comment

From a July 29 article in El Paso’s English language daily: “I am confident that with the City Council’s guidance,

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Not Too Bad If You’ve Got Low Standards

2015-07-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good 2 comments

My City Rep posted this link on her Facepage. When it comes to walkable cities, Texas tends to get a

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El Paso: A Metaphor

2015-07-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good, Politics One comment

El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend who treats her badly and maybe hits her

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More on DestinationElPaso’s Branding Campaign

2015-07-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

A friend of mine who worked on the city’s brand a while back saw my recent post and messaged me

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More Good News

2015-07-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good One comment

David Crowder at the El Paso Inc. reports this week that airline passenger traffic has dropped twenty percent over the

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“There’s no need to fear. Underdog is here.”

2015-07-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good Leave a comment

Maybe you’re one of those people who think that the litany of bad news coming to light about El Paso’s

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DestinationElPaso’s Branding Campaign

2015-07-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Branding isn’t advertising. It’s not marketing. A brand is more like the gestalt of a good or service. A brand

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