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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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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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Shopping South El Paso Street

2025-12-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our

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“Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

2025-12-21 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

2025-12-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

2025-12-17 Rich Wright The Environment, Economic Development, Project Jupiter, Slider, Water Leave a comment

Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New

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Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

2025-12-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized, Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

2025-12-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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The New York Times on Project Jupiter

2025-12-11 elrichiboy New Mexico, Project Jupiter, Slider Leave a comment

NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there

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The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

2025-12-06 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Project Jupiter, Slider, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has

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Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

2025-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 10 February 2023. Part of the reason that property taxes are so high in the

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Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

2025-12-02 Rich Wright Slider, City Council, City Management, Debt, Dionne Mack, Joyce Wilson, Renard Johnson, Robert Cortinas, Taxes, TIRZs 4 comments

Did you see last week that the City Manager wanted to charge every house and business in El Paso a

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“The Second Woman”

2025-11-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”

2025-11-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

2025-11-25 Kent Paterson CRRUA, El Paso, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Customers of the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) in the New Mexico border communities of Sunland

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Big Brother is Watching

2025-11-24 Rich Wright Uncategorized, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s a comforting story from EFF.org, the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Through an analysis of 10 months of

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Again, Who’s the New Guy?

2025-11-23 elrichiboy If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider Leave a comment

I’m probably late to the party with this. Won’t AI generated “people” start infiltrating your social media feed? Come on,

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“Fog Island”

2025-11-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Budget – The ENTIRE History of the CIA”

2025-11-22 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

2025-11-17 elrichiboy The Environment, How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

“[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas

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“Harper”

2025-11-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

2025-11-15 elrichiboy shows, How to Live in El Paso, Music Leave a comment

Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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