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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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The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. — Steve Martin Did you read this story in

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Big News from Wazoo

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you read the big news out of Juarez last week? No, not the futbol team. (I thought Juarez already

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City (Not El Paso) Raises Taxes to Pay Legal Settlement for Police Misconduct

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In a case that may portend what’s in store for El Pasoans, the city of Inkster, Michigan, will hit taxpayers

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More on the New State Law on Public Corruption

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the State Legislature passed that bill giving the Texas Rangers the authority to investigate

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The El Paso Times Urges Fiscal Responsibility!

2015-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Sunday published an editorial calling for a more sensible approach to civic finance. Over the past

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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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El Paso: Not like the Movies

2015-05-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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How To Live in El Paso: Valentina Hot Sauce

2015-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Am I right? I mean, it’s not the same as that special salsa you make, with the grilled and raw

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Hey, we’re on Twitter!

2015-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Whatever that is. @elchuqueno Did I do that right?

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The El Paso Times vs. the PSB

2015-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board came out against the Public Service Board’s new franchise fee, now that the PSB

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Did you just hear something . . .

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

hit the fan? No, not yet? Just you wait.

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Idle Speculation

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this story in this week’s El Paso Inc., (the one about River Oaks putting its downtown properties up for

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A Big Day in Whoville

2015-05-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For those of you who were wondering what to celebrate, or maybe what you were already celebrating.

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Maybe we’re the stupid ones.

2015-05-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hell, if going broke is inevitable, we might as well spend our last paycheck on fancy doodads that can’t get

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We get the government we deserve.

2015-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board weighed in on the significance of the recent election results. El Paso’s voters sent

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Legal Pot in Texas?

2015-05-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of my homies have been telling me that legal is right around the corner. From the Houston Chronicle Online:

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El Paso vs. Art

2015-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Maybe you’ve heard the chatter on your social media accounts about the City eighty-sixing Margarita Cabrera’s sculpture from the roundabout

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We Deserve Better

2015-05-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

This story in the Sun Shopper, er, I mean the El Paso Times, by ace reporter Aaron Martinez leaves a

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Downtown Development? Thank Jim Scherr

2015-05-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

The talk around the water cooler is that the owners of those new boutique hotels were motivated by the success

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