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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 Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Devils Look Like Angels

2021-02-04 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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How To Cripple an Economy

2021-02-04 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Economies are delicate ecosystems that develop over time. Agent Orange, or napalm, or diesel fuel might kill a garden, but

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Retrovision: The Lies they Tell us

2021-02-02 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 April 2020. Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to

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Leonard Cohen – Winter Lady

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ABC-7 Xtra on the Downtown Historic District

2021-02-01 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment

Max Grossman and Richard Dayoub

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Oscar Leeser Has a Mandate

2021-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Oscar Leeser won the election by a 4 to 1 margin. That’s more than a little bit. That’s a landslide.

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Sunday Matinee – Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers

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Ben Hester – In the Sweet By and By

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Saturday Matinee: Putin’s Palace

2021-01-30 elrichiboy Corruption, Saturday Documentary, World News Leave a comment
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Miles Davis – Elevator to the Gallows

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Senses Fail – Elevator to the Gallows

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Lobbyist Loophole?

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Lobbyists, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Or maybe the City Clerk is just not doing her job. Here’s Chapter 2.94 – REGULATION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES of

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Friday Short – David

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Fort Bliss Added to El Paso County’s Population

2021-01-28 elrichiboy population, Slider Leave a comment

Starting with the 10 year census in 2020, the Census Bureau will start counting the population of military bases as

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Miles Davis – So What

2021-01-27 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground

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Joe T. Hodo vs. Los DREAMers

2021-01-26 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Ministry – Just One Fix

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The Deck is Coming

2021-01-25 elrichiboy Corruption, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, The Trench 10 comments

Here’s a message I received from TxDOT contractors via the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Association: As an interested party in the

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The United Nations Definition of Genocide

2021-01-24 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider 4 comments

From the UN.org website: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II In the present

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • 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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