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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: 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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The Stanton Street Bike Lane

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 7 comments

To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each

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Still No Ethics (Revision)

2018-07-02 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics 2 comments

Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s

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What Are We To Do?

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Elections, Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”

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Que se descanse en paz

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Juarez, Media Leave a comment

If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across

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Sunday Matinee: Black Widow

2018-07-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a

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“The Future of Cities”

2018-06-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is

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It’s Class War

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Perspectives, Slider 2 comments

Here’s District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You develop

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Sunday Matinee: Blood Relative

2018-06-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

They say it’s a nail biting action thriller. Watch this video on YouTube The acting is a little wooden, but

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Retrovision: Payback? Ha!

2018-06-19 elrichiboy Ethics, Politics Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 5 April 2016. In my next life, I want to come back as a member

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It’s a Misdemeanor

2018-06-19 elrichiboy Breaking News, Law Enforcement 9 comments

Entering the United State illegally is a misdemeanor, like taking a sip of beer in the parking lot of a

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Murmurs: El Paso Public Library = Chicano Memorial Museum

2018-06-19 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of

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I Knew Them When . . .

2018-06-18 elrichiboy Art, Juarez Leave a comment

I found the models for Cimi’s Segundo Barrio mural. I bet they don’t even know that they’re famous.

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The Death of the American City

2018-06-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has

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Sunday Matinee: Nightfall

2018-06-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 film noir with some nice cinematography. With Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Annette Benning, and Rudy Bond. Watch

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“Some Cities Are Screwed”

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part

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How Much is So Much?

2018-06-16 elrichiboy Perspectives 2 comments

You hear it all the time. “Thank you so much.” Well, how much is so much? Is it more than

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Sign the Lost Dog Petition

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a

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Joel Is Right

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El

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I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never

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The People Speak!

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • Shopping South El Paso Street
  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

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