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Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

2025-12-17 Rich Wright Economic Development, Project Jupiter, Slider, The Environment, 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 Slider, Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized 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 Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Uncategorized 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 City Council, City Management, Debt, Dionne Mack, Joyce Wilson, Renard Johnson, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 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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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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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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“Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

2025-11-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, The Environment 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”

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Thank the Taxpayers

2025-11-10 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Ricardo Samaniego, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and

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Can’t We Just Wait?

2025-11-09 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT 2 comments

Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people

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“The Sniper”

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“Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

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“Deadfall”

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Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

2025-11-01 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, shows, Slider Leave a comment

With music by David Romo.

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Bullfight Tonight!

2025-10-31 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner

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Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

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“Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

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