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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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What’s Going on With Lost Dog?

2019-04-23 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 7 comments

Today the El Paso City Council had a meeting to discuss their response to the Lost Dog election. Early voting

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Retrovision: Taking a Ride

2019-04-23 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Trolley Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 21 November 2016. How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How

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Adios, Amigo

2019-04-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Liar Liar, Quality of Life Projects 6 comments

Remember all those reasons the bond advocates used to peddle those Quality of Life bonds? “Residential property owners are shouldering

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The Organization Before the Community

2019-04-17 elrichiboy City Management, Dionne Mack, Library, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

The City Manager protects his team. Even when they’re wrong. So if one of his Deputy City Managers decides to

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Sunday Matinee: Criminal

2019-04-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a star-studded action flick from 2016. The movie features Gal Gadot, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kostner, Gary Oldman, and

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The Hu Band: Wolf Totem

2019-04-06 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments

This is what comes up if you type “Mongolian Metal” into the search box. Watch this video on YouTube Turn

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The Old Mexico Border

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a cool photo essay from the New York Times about the territory that bordered the U.S. before the Mexican-American

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Joe Bonamassa and Tina Guo

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s easier than it looks. Watch this video on YouTube

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DÍA DE SAN RICARDO

2019-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! 2 comments

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel. Tradition dictates

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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Never Gonna Give You Up

2019-04-01 elrichiboy Art 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube

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Teddy Roosevelt in Juarez

2019-03-29 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Slider One comment

Lookie what I found. Isn’t that our future 26th president enjoying a cigar as he plays roulette at the Monte

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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Corruption: The Short Version

2019-03-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

The City of El Paso is trading 2,313 acres adjacent to the golf course in Northeast El Paso to Paul

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Drunk Without Hangovers

2019-03-27 elrichiboy News 4 comments

It’s right around the corner, according to this article from the Independent. Alcohol that makes you feel drunk without the

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Business Community: Not In My Backyard

2019-03-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Gratuitous Snark, MountainStar Sports Group 2 comments

Oh, the irony. From Aaron Montes at the El Paso Times: A large warehouse built 19 years ago in West

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Smells Like Corruption

2019-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If the people who run the El Paso City Government are not totally corrupt, they’re grossly incompetent. Take that Great

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Who Dropped the Soap?

2019-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought

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Widening the I-10 Trench

2019-03-20 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10

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The Chamber of Commerce is a Good Dog

2019-03-19 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Our friends at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, the ones who heartily endorsed every project that has inflated your

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