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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2019-05-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Go Local, Slider, Taxes One comment

This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,

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Life Lessons

2019-05-13 elrichiboy Ethics, Perspectives Leave a comment

Here’s some wisdom from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s main man, via getpocket.com. To get what you want, deserve what you

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Will Paul Foster Do Better?

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

Now that the Borderplex Real Estate Investment Trust has sold its downtown real estate assets to Paul Foster’s Franklin Mountain

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Common Sense

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what

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Are the Wheels Coming Off?

2019-05-09 elrichiboy Breaking News, Downtown, Slider 6 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns

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Los Gallos Negros

2019-05-07 elrichiboy Politics 16 comments

We are Los Gallos Negros, a collective of people fighting to retake control of City Government. Los Gallos Negros are

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Was Lost Dog a Referendum on City Government?

2019-05-07 elrichiboy City Council, Great Wolf Resorts, Lost Dog, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 6 comments

Max Grossman points out the the ballot ordinance to save Lost Dog got more votes than Mayor Dee Margo did

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Water Parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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“Bienvenidos, Heather Wilson”

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Heather Wilson, UTEP One comment

Here’s a letter of support for UTEP’s new president Heather Wilson from retired judge Luis Aguilar that appeared in the

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Sunday Matinee: Assassin’s Tale

2019-05-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s an action flick with plenty of murder and mayhem and coping. Check it out.

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a 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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As Goes the Golf Course, So Goes the City

2019-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the City isn’t going to bail out the Vista Hills Country

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Southern Rock

2019-05-02 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment

Like the Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard had a baby raised by wolves. Check it out.

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Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions

2019-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of

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Retrovision: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About TIRZs*

2019-04-29 elrichiboy Lost Dog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. This article originally appeared on 23 May 2018. What is a Tax

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Retrovision: Economic Development: Economics 101

2019-04-29 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2015. Back when I was in school, before the wheel and shortly after

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The Storm That Swept Mexico

2019-04-27 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a cool two hour video that covers the history of Mexico, mostly the first half of the twentieth century.

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Don’t Be complacent about Lost Dog

2019-04-26 elrichiboy Elections, Lost Dog Leave a comment

I know, it looks like the open space advocates have this one won. But don’t underestimate the Forces of Evil.

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Migration analysis from Robert Moore

2019-04-25 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

Aspiring journalist Robert Moore recently reported on El Paso’s stagnant population growth for Borderzine, UTEP’s online magazIne for aspiring journalists.

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Cissy, Puhleeze

2019-04-25 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Trolley 7 comments

An alert reader forwarded me the latest update from District 8 Representative Cissy Lizarraga. Serving the public is not easy;

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