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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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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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At Large in Europe by Lank Dresser

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s day eight of a ten-day tour. I just woke up in a renovated suite in a castle in County

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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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