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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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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live Webcast

2018-04-16 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are playing at the Plaza Theatre on Thursday, April 26. I’ve already got my

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Banditos at Lowbrow Palace April 22

2018-04-16 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Hey, retro rock and rollers. Do you know this band, the Banditos? No, not the American motorcycle club with a

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Expanding My Uni Verse

2018-04-16 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I’ve decided to immerse myself into learning a new language. Martian was my first choice

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How To Be An Unregistered Lobbyist

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council Leave a comment

It’s easy. Lobbyists are only people who are paid to lobby. If you’re paid for something else, like, say, being

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Transparency, Transhmerancy

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement One comment

Tomorrow City Council is appointing a “City of El Paso Ad Hoc Charter Advisory Committee for the purpose of a

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Sunday Matinee: Hell’s Island

2018-04-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 film noir, in VistaVision Technicolor! Watch this video on YouTube Here’s what the director, Phil Karlson had

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Studio Tour

2018-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Are you doing anything this weekend? Maybe you’d like to see how art happens. More than three dozen artists are

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Calexico at Tricky Falls April 19

2018-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do 2 comments

Calexico, the band that should have been named Juarpaso, plays at Tricky Falls this Thursday. Here they are with a

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City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico

2018-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 18 comments

by John Mulhouse Empty Desks In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far

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The Long Goodbye

2018-04-13 elrichiboy City of Dust, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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It’s All In The Spin

2018-04-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to

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Tales From the Morgue

2018-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue

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Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes

2018-04-11 elrichiboy Corrections, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric

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El Feis

2018-04-10 elrichiboy Perspectives 3 comments

I don’t understand the Facebook controversy. Did anyone think that Facebook wasn’t selling your information? Did you think it was

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El Paso is Unique

2018-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider 4 comments

Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other

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Sunday Matinee: God of War

2018-04-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it

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Still Lives: Taos

2018-04-05 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Art, New Mexico, 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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The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Slider 3 comments

Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,

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The City’s Filmmaker Program

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

This from KVIA: The El Paso City Council voted to create a local Filmmaker Program. The city will award $30,000

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Waiting Room

2018-04-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting in a waiting room at the Hospital de la Familia, one floor up and a hundred yards from

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers

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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