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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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“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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Still Lives: Carlsbad

2018-06-12 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse I knew the moment we met that we’d be together until

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Looking Back to the Future

2018-06-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been chasing someone else’s disposable income my whole life. Before slinging drinks on the front lines of the service

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What If Their Plan Doesn’t Work?

2018-06-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

What if they’re doing it wrong? What if their plans for economic development are based on false assumptions? What if

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Sunday Matinee: Fist of Legend

2018-06-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Jet Li in a 1994 action flick. What else is there to say? Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Is El Paso Dying?

2018-06-07 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

I went by the liquor mega-store this week and there were four cars in the parking lot. Inside there were

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The El Paso Housing Bubble

2018-06-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 5 comments

The Central Appraisal District tells us that house values are up 7.6 percent this year. While the U.S. Census Bureau

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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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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