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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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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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The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña

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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park One comment

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.

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Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

2025-09-05 Kent Paterson Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest

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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

2025-05-29 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 3 comments

The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City

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CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

2025-05-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water One comment

by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental

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The Water Crisis in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa One Year Later, Part One: Residents Seek Stricter Federal Oversight of Water Utility

2025-01-03 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Lawyers for residents of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa have requested stepped up oversight of a publicly-owned

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Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest

2024-04-15 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa

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The People Speak!

  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?

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