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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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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

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

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The Great Divide

2019-09-27 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

El Paso is fractured. Culturally. Geographically. Economically. Politically. And linguistically. According to the most current estimates from the U.S. Census

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It’s Not Too Late To Get Those Tomatoes In The Ground

2019-09-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. The National Weather Service says there a real good chance that this winter will be warmer than usual.

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Retrovision: EL PASO’S BLEAK FUTURE: A CONTRARIAN VIEW

2019-09-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 December 2012. If any of our current elected officials claim that they couldn’t have

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The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

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How Stockton Went Bankrupt

2019-09-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a familiar tune. Only some of the words have changed, and our numbers are bigger. Daniel Berger, a senior

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RIP Chet

2019-09-24 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Music, Slider 7 comments

Chet first came to El Paso playing drums for Big Jack Johnson. Two months later he showed up at Wildhare’s

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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Our Political Class

2019-09-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates

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If You Build it, Will They Come?

2019-09-22 elrichiboy Slider 5 comments

TxDOT says the Border West Expressway project is finished, but you can’t drive on it yet, according to this story

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Do You Trust City Government?

2019-09-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I lifted this from the City’s website: The proposed 2019 Public Safety Bond is the City’s plan to use voter approved bonds

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”

2019-09-12 elrichiboy Art, Music, Slider, Video One comment

From the Wall Street Journal: Just this year, “Old Town Road,” the hip-hop-flavored internet hit by Lil Nas X, made

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Did the Mayor of El Paso Fire the Editor of the City’s Daily?

2019-09-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It sure looks like it. On September 17, 2017, this editorial appeared in the print edition of the El Paso

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Tweedle Eedle Eet

2019-09-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore’s ElPasoMatters twitter feed features the kind of feel good stories we love here at El Chuqueño. Here’s the

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Nothing to See Here

2019-09-09 elrichiboy Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. This advert in the El Paso Inc. says that State Representative Joe Moody is the new General Counsel

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Sunday Matinee: Mafia

2019-09-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a seventies blaxploitation movie that was made in 2012. Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and the melting Terminator guy.

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The 3.5% Solution

2019-09-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Quality of Life Projects, Sam Morgan, Slider, The Arena, Water Parks 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.

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“I Was Hacked!”

2019-09-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 9 comments

I guess District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez hasn’t been keeping up with current events. “I was hacked” seems to work

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Sunday Matinee: Dawn Rider

2019-09-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2012 Western starring that guy from Mr. Robot and Donald Sutherland. Christian Slater. Yeah, Christian Slater. Check it

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  • 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
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  • 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
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • 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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