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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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Clank Clank Clank Went the Trolley

2019-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 4 comments

The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost

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The Day the Secret Service Killed the President

2019-07-29 elrichiboy Video 2 comments

Accidentally, of course. Here’s a documentary that posits that President Kennedy was killed by a new Secret Service agent, and

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Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2019-07-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property

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Speaking of Tortillas

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Did you remember that the Rib Hut on Mesa has $1.50 burritos on Saturdays? You can pick up a dozen

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Mmm good!

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

I haven’t tasted these tortillas yet, but they smell delicious.

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Surprise, Surprise!

2019-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

You know, the City used to justify municipal extravagance with the rationalization that we need to swing our tax base

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Retrovision: What’s Wrong With El Paso

2019-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2012, shortly after man harnessed fire and before the invention of the wheel.

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EPEC’s Falling Bond Rating

2019-07-16 elrichiboy Cost of Living, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

Another story from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Electric has been placed on review for downgrade by one of

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Survey Says . . .

2019-07-15 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

Okay, fans, here’s a survey about the city being conducted by a UTEP student who asked us to participate. It’s

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Smells Fishy

2019-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, El Paso Electric Company, Slider 3 comments

The El Paso Inc. this week came out with this enticing story: An El Paso businessman has commissioned an independent

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Unintended Consequences

2019-07-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Elections, Media, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Sometime in the murky past, the City moved the date of local elections to coincide with state and national elections.

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Clueless in El Chuco

2019-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

An alert reader forwarded me District 8 City Representative Cissy Lizarraga’s latest newsletter. Rep. Lizarraga is proud to tell her

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Brother, Can You Spare a Billion Bucks?

2019-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Dionne Mack, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

This November, the City of El Paso will ask its taxpayers to approve a $940 million bond. From CBS4Local.com: “At

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Chime the F Off

2019-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From today’s print version of the El Paso Times: City staff said 2,200 El Pasoans participated in a community-wide survey

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Quality of Life

2019-07-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, How to Live in El Paso, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when

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Sunday Matinee: John Doe: Vigilante

2019-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a story about revenge, kind of like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. Those folks in Australia sure do talk funny.

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“Assessment Limits”

2019-07-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Sharp-eyed El Pasophiles will have noticed that El Paso came in both first and second place in homestead property tax

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WSJ On Tax Incentives: A Race to the Bottom

2019-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a story from last week’s Wall Street Journal about using tax incentives to lure businesses: Concerns have mounted in

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It’s All Tommy G

2019-07-02 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 10 comments

Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality

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“And the Winner Is . . .”

2019-06-27 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of

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  • 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
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  • 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
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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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