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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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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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The Quiller Memorandum

2018-09-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Watch this

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The Mayor On Wikipedia

2018-08-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

2018-08-30 elrichiboy Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 3 comments

As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article

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Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit

2018-08-29 Rich Wright Meta Blog, Slider, TIRZs 5 comments

There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain

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Now, or Later?

2018-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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“Market Value”

2018-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Today the County Commissioners are giving themselves a four percent raise. Here’s how Precinct 4 Commissioner Andrew Haggerty justified the

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Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-08-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life

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Sunday Matinee: The Sun Shines Bright

2018-08-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s this trippy John Ford flick from 1953. Here’s what one movie website had to say about John Ford: Among

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Friday Short: The Fence

2018-08-24 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s an award winning short film. With accents, and a modicum of brief violence. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Hope In One Hand . . .

2018-08-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s an article a reader alerted me to, which pretty much sums up the City’s position: Hope is a psychological

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What The . . . ?

2018-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News 2 comments

A UFO? Definitely. A flying saucer? Perhaps. Check out the picture that an avid reader (okay, actually the friend of

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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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The Freeway Is Open

2018-08-19 Rich Wright Breaking News 2 comments

Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

2018-08-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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“Hold The Line”

2018-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

This from the El Paso Times this morning: The City Council rejected a utility sales tax on natural gas and

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Reasonable People

2018-08-14 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

I think reasonable people will agree that El Paso’s property taxes are too high. El Paso’s property tax rates are

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