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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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The Central Appraisal District Responds

2018-08-01 Rich Wright Cost of Living, Taxes 4 comments

Yesterday a loyal reader sent one of my articles to Dinah Kilgore, the Executive Director and Chief Appraiser of the

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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The Mayor’s Missing Emails

2018-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Mayor Dee Margo appears to have sidestepped the city’s public information rules and

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Sunday Matinee: The Rover

2018-07-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

Here’s a 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopia flick set in the Australian outback. No, not Mad Max. A different, more believable, post-apocalyptic

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The Easiest Thing To Do Is Not Care

2018-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Slider 8 comments

City Council has shown a complete disregard for what many members of the community care about. They’ve made their decisions

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What Is El Paso’s Comparative Advantage?

2018-07-25 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

Development economists like to talk about an economy’s comparative advantage. Investopedia says this about Comparative Advantage: Comparative advantage is an

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We Hardly Knew You

2018-07-24 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

By now you may have heard that Pacific Financial appears to have folded up its tent and left town. Or

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City Council Raises Taxes! Again! And Again!

2018-07-24 Rich Wright Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

At a Special Meeting on Monday, City Council approved an additional $20 million in Certificates of Obligation for the Children’s

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Sunday Matinee: Sync

2018-07-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a surprisingly decent movie that half Quantum Leap, half James Bond, and half Westworld. That’s right. It’s a movie

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A Letter

2018-07-20 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Someone slipped this under the door of El Chuqueño World Headquarters last night. It appears to be a letter from

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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“The Sunk Cost Fallacy”

2018-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from YouAreNotSoSmart.com on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the idea that you’ve already invested so much in a

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Mountain Biking Lost Dog

2018-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, TIRZs, Video One comment

Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. Watch

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Chicano Batman At Music Under the Stars at Cohen on Sunday

2018-07-14 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

There are lots of ways to slice El Paso. Some El Pasoans like baseball and lazy river rides. And some

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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About the Lost Dog TIRZ

2018-07-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 6 comments

Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that

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More Lies From Our Friends In City Government

2018-07-12 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 comments

Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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