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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 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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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”

2025-11-16 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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”

2025-11-09 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

2025-11-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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“Deadfall”

2025-11-02 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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”

2025-10-26 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

2025-10-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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“EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

2025-10-23 Bob Chessey Culture, El Paso, History, Music, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,”

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Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

2025-10-20 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s

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“The Other Woman”

2025-10-19 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

2025-10-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment

Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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