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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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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

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“How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

2026-04-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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“Now We Know Their Names”

2026-04-17 elrichiboy El Paso, Law Enforcement, Slider, Video Leave a comment
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Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

2026-04-16 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Data Centers, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, Water One comment

By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting

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Paul and Julie Ten Years After

2026-04-13 Rich Wright Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 3 comments

On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like

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“The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

2026-04-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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(Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

2026-04-09 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should

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Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

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NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

2026-04-03 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider Leave a comment

(Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how

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People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

2026-03-31 Kent Paterson Data Centers, Meta, Project Jupiter, Slider 3 comments

By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open

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Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Slider 2 comments

by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s

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“Hangover Square”

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“The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

2026-03-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots

2026-03-19 Kent Paterson Uncategorized 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Here’s a binational border institution many of you might haven’t heard of-the wordy Joint Advisory Committee for

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“The Scarlet Hour”

2026-03-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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El Paso is Falling

2026-03-13 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Water, EPISD, Slider 2 comments

The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the

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“Writing Doom” – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence

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The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

2026-03-08 Rich Wright Corruption, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the

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Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

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Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

2026-03-07 Kent Paterson Breaking News, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched

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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”
  • “Blackout”
  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

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