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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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The Open Insulin Project

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Omicron and the Sputnik

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred HItchcock’s Young and Innocent

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Saturday Matinee – The Opioid Crisis is Much Worse Than You Think

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Friday Short – Roy

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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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Sunday Matinee – Call Northside 777

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Tenebrae – Miserere Mei, Deus

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David Romo vs. Adair Margo

2021-11-20 elrichiboy History, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From Adair Margo’s guest column in the El Paso Times: Since 2016, a falsehood has been spread nationwide about El

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Saturday Matinee – The Man Who Knew Too Much

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Friday Short – Green Luck

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The Dead South – People Are Strange

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Max For the Win!

2021-11-15 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Recently, “Former First Lady” Adair Margo wrote a guest column for the El Paso Times. Since 2016, a falsehood has

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Sunday Matinee – Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel

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Hezekiah Walker – Every Praise

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Saturday Matinee – America’s Broken Dream: The Middle-Class Families Living in Motels

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Friday Short – Oblivio

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Are We Finally Getting Good Government?

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown Historic District, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Or is it a trick? From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council met Tuesday to once again discuss whether seek to

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Amateurs From Kalamazoo

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider Leave a comment

From a Time.com article, titled Two Rich Men Decided to Fund a Failing City. Some People Say They Made It

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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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