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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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Sunday Matinee: Framed

2018-03-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1947 Glenn Ford film finds our hero in the clutches of a beautiful barmaid who has him figured for

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How Are Your Chiles Doing?

2018-03-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Most of my pequin survived the winter (wasn’t it brutal this year?), but so far the habaneros show no signs

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Dale Watson Leaving Austin For Memphis

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

From the Texas Standard: “I make a good living,” Watson says. “But the city has really made it hard to

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Murderer of UTEP Grad Faces Life in Prison

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Breaking News 3 comments

Remember that engineer who was shot and killed in a bar in Kansas last year? It looks like the guy

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Stuart Blaugrund Drills Downtown

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a letter to the El Paso Times from the lawyer who challenged the Downtown Plan back in the day.

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This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog-Killer

2018-03-08 elrichiboy News, Slider 2 comments

That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door neighbor, Carlos Fernandez,

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Lie Back and Enjoy It

2018-03-08 elrichiboy Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

Some of my friends think that Woody Hunt was suggesting that the proposed arena should be reconsidered when he said

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About That Arena

2018-03-07 elrichiboy City Council, Lobbyists, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Remember that poll about the arena that KVIA did? Only 26% of the residents of El Paso County who were

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

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Sunday Matinee: Farewell My Lovely

2018-03-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Robert Mitchum is one of the Hollywood stars I would have most like to share a bottle of tequila with.

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Those poor dears. They try so hard.

2018-03-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

This is the sidewalk on Cincinnati Street. You remember. The City just spent money to make it nice. They put

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City of Dust: Cedarvale, New Mexico

2018-02-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

2018-02-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Hitchcock film that may have escaped your notice. Here’s the plot summary from IMDb: A serial murderer is

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Golf Clubs

2018-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships One comment

Perhaps you saw this story in the El Paso Times about the public golf courses in the city. El Paso’s

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Elections, The Arena 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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It’s All About the Spin

2018-02-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships 4 comments

Did you see this story about El Paso’s newest Public Private Partnership? From the El Paso Times: Fivestars, a San

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Quality of Life

2018-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?

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The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses

2018-02-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained

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Sunday Matinee: Detour

2018-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

If this movie were any more noir, it would be a parody of itself. Here’s what IMDb had to say

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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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