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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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More To Love

2018-05-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Check out this piece in the Washington Post, part of their You’re Going Where? series. I forgot my passport, but

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Tax Breaks for the Rich

2018-05-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Did you see this story on KVIA? El Paso City Council is considering establishing a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ)

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The Global Garbage Glut

2018-05-15 elrichiboy News, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this story from the Wall Street Journal: The U.S. recycling industry is breaking down. Prices

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Susie Byrd on the Ballpark

2018-05-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Taxes 8 comments

There was this story from KVIA about the ballpark: It is year five for the El Paso Chihuahuas, and we

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Not John Cook

2018-05-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Elections 8 comments

El Chuqueño does not endorse political candidates (though there’s this one candidate for District 8 that the editorial board is

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The Wolf Lodge Water Park TIRZ

2018-05-14 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes One comment

This came out of the supporting materials for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting agenda, Item 16.2: On December 19, 2017, the

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Sunday Matinee: The Scar

2018-05-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a classic film noir that reinforces the adage that crime doesn’t pay. Watch this video on YouTube The cinematography,

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Protest Your Property Tax Valuation

2018-05-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Taxes 3 comments

There are lots of reasons that some people don’t protest their property tax valuations. Some people like the idea of

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The Shame of the City

2018-05-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes 3 comments

Today is trash day in my neighborhood Barrio Heights. Last night, as I was falling to sleep, I realized that

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I’ve Got A (Conspiracy) Theory

2018-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes One comment

Some conspiracy theories are a load of hooey, but people making deals out of the public eye are standard operating

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder

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Quality of Life is . . .

2018-05-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 9 comments

Quality of life is having friends over for dinner. A ten minute daily commute. Sunset in the desert. A chile

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Making Sense About Cohen Stadium

2018-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Look, I don’t want to ruin the political discourse at City Hall by introducing things like common sense and logic,

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Still Lives: La Mesa, New Mexico

2018-05-07 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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About That NE Water Park

2018-05-07 elrichiboy City Council, Slider One comment

What’s it for? To make El Paso more attractive to the Army big brass? Or for El Pasoans. I don’t

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Sunday Matinee: Angels Over Broadway

2018-05-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1940 film noir caper flick starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Rita Hayworth, and it doesn’t get much better

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Retrovision: El Paso: A Metaphor

2018-05-04 elrichiboy City Council, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. Things haven’t improved since then. El Paso is like that really nice

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The Population Box Score

2018-05-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

Okay, sports fans, I know that some of you are trying to keep score at home, so here are some

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City of Dust: Guadalupe, New Mexico

2018-05-03 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Music on the Wind Today let’s visit the banks of the Puerco and explore the history of Guadalupe, New Mexico.

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The City’s Plan Sucks

2018-05-03 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich guys came up with behind closed doors in

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