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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

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

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

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
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  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter

    2025-12-11 elrichiboy

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

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

    2025-12-06 Kent Paterson

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

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  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

    2025-12-03 elrichiboy

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

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

    2025-12-02 Rich Wright

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

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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

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

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  • Again, Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-11-23 elrichiboy

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

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Tariffs, the Superbowl and Ecocide

2025-02-07 Kent Paterson Mexico, Slider, The Environment 4 comments

By Kent Paterson President Donald Trump’s decision to delay for 30 days the implementation of tariffs on Mexican products averted

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Otero County Deputy Charged With Murder

2025-02-04 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a horrific story about a trigger happy deputy unloading a whole clip into a teenager who dropped an airsoft

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“Alimony”

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“The Atlantis Puzzle”

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Shenanigans in Canuto?

2025-01-27 elrichiboy Canutillo ISD, Slider Leave a comment

Here are the contents of an email I received on January 15: Respected Media Members, Below is a timeline recently

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Is the Deck Park Dead, or Just Resting?

2025-01-27 Rich Wright Deck Park 4 comments

From Diego Mendoza-Moyers at ElPasoMatters.com: The effort to build a deck park suspended over Interstate 10 in Downtown El Paso

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“The Big Combo”

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“The Seven Five”

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Know Your Rights

2025-01-24 Xavier Miranda Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda (Sigue en español)   In light of Trump’s mass deportations, it is important to educate ourselves and our

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We’re No. 1!

2025-01-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Joyce Wilson, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From El Paso’s English language almost daily: While El Paso has lots to be proud of — endless hiking in

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“City Heat”

2025-01-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Phenomenon”

2025-01-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2025-01-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Opportunity Costs, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Saucedo’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Children’s Hospital Dismissed

2025-01-13 Rich Wright El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

From this week’s El Paso Inc.*: A district judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed against El Paso Children’s

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“The Inner Circle”

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“Mesopotamia – The Sumerians”

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The Looming Immigration Policy

2025-01-10 Xavier Miranda Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Slider One comment

by Xavier Miranda As we approach a second Trump presidential term, it is vital we educate ourselves on looming immigration

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The Most Bilingual City in America

2025-01-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

According to this story on Preply.com, El Paso is the most bilingual city in America: The ability to speak more

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“Strange Illusion”

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“Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History”

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • 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

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Shopping South El Paso Street
  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

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