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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 Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, Perspectives, Public Private Partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along

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Sunday Matinee: Hard Boiled

2018-06-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s director John Woo’s 1992 cops and gangsters classic, starring Chow Yun-fat. Lots of that bang bang shoot-’em-up choreography that

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City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico

2018-06-01 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be

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Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations

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More Businesses But Not More Business

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move

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The First Rule of Operational Security

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

. . . is that you don’t talk about Operational Security. I bet that they’ve revoked Major Morgan’s security clearance

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The Link Policy is Back

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Media One comment

That pesky “Link Policy” is back on the City’s website. Aesthetically, it clutters up the website’s menu. Practically, I’m not

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“OpSec”

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

That’s the phrase District 4 Representative Sam Morgan used to justify his vote for TIRZ 12 at yesterday’s City Council

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El Paso Grows By Four Tenths of One Percent

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

According to estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of El Paso grew by

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The Bubble

2018-05-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

We all live in our own bubbles. We hang out with people who think like us and dress like us

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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Sunday Matinee: Den of Thieves

2018-05-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2018 heist movie starring Fiddy Cent and a bunch of other cats you’re supposed to know. Watch this

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Ultimate College Nationals Live Stream

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Maybe you were going to do some yard work this weekend. Maybe you were going to re-primer your jeep. You

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Champions League Final Saturday! Updated!

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid take on Mohamed Salah and Liverpool Saturday at 12:45 in the finals of the Champions

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Retrovision: Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy Retrovision, Slider, TIRZs One comment

This article originally appeared more than four years ago, on July 30, 2014. I mean, we’re not like other towns.

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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Kickoff Party Thursday, May 24

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Political Advertisement One comment

We’re celebrating the launch of our campaign for District 8 at 5:30 today at Happy’s Barley and Vine, at the

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That Children’s Museum Will Be Free, Right?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Did you hear that the City of El Paso, along with some private investors, are going to build a Children’s

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A Musical Interlude: Los Seven Teens de Ciudad Juarez

2018-05-23 elrichiboy Music 2 comments

These guys captured what we call today the El Paso sound. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TIRZs*

2018-05-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes, TIRZs One comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. What is a Tax Increment Refinancing Zone, anyway? Here’s testimony given to

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