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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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City of Dust: Trouble in Mind

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age

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Death and Taxes

2018-02-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council

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Survey Says:

2018-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see the results of this survey that KVIA did on putting the arena in Duranguito? ABC-7 recently conducted

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Sunday Matinee: Patterns

2018-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 movie with a script written by Rod Serling. It’s about office politics, and naked capitalism. Watch this

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All The News That May or May Not Exist

2018-02-07 elrichiboy Media, School Districts Leave a comment

Did you see the latest dustup over there at EPISD? From KVIA: EPISD District 7 Trustee Mickey Loweree said she

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Okay, I’m Running.

2018-02-06 elrichiboy City Council 12 comments

Friday I filed a Campaign Treasurers Appointment for a run to be the City Council Representative for District 8. That

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Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2018-02-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider Leave a comment

Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on

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DavidK vs. The El Paso Times

2018-02-06 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 3 comments

DavidK laments what he perceives as bias in the El Paso Times coverage of the local political scene, in this

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Liquor Laws are for the Little People

2018-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. has a big write-up about Paul Foster’s renovation of the Plaza Hotel this week. The renovated

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Happy Birthday, Ida Lupino

2018-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ida Lupino would have been 100-years-old today. She was the first woman to direct a film-noir, The Hitch-hiker, which I

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Sunday Matinee: Poolhall Junkies

2018-02-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Hey. Christopher Walken in a pool hustling movie. With Chazz Palmenteri and a little Rod Steiger. How bad could it

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Seth Godin on Arenas

2018-02-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, sports, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Seth Godin today talks about cities building stadiums in a column titled The Super Bowl is for Losers. So why

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Bravos vs. Dorados Today

2018-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Bravos (the futbol team from Juarez) got a game today. Versus the Dorados of Sinaloa. 5 p.m. at the Benito

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Monarch’s Gone Vegan

2018-02-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sponsored, What to Do Leave a comment

Maybe not completely. There’s probably still anchovies in their Worcestershire sauce, but if you ask real nice maybe they’ll strain

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Stuart Blaugrund’s Column in the Times

2018-02-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Stuart Blaugrund “represented a group of Downtown business and property owners who successfully resisted the taking of their properties for

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Cinépolis (and a Mall) in Downtown Juarez

2018-02-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 8 comments

Have you been to Juarez lately? Don’t lie to me. You have not. If you’ve crossed the border at all,

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Battle for the Claw

2018-02-01 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, World News Leave a comment

No, that’s not the new logo of the El Paso High School PTA. That’s the logo of the Gente Nueva

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That New Brothel Downtown

2018-01-31 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Gratuitous Snark 2 comments

God bless those nice people fixing up the Camino Real downtown. Here’s what the El Paso Times reported: The renovation

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Sunday Matinee: In Bruges

2018-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

The International Movie Database (IMDb, to the cognoscenti) claims that this movie is a comedy, but that’s a stretch. The

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The Other End of the Tunnel

2018-01-27 elrichiboy Juarez, Perspectives 4 comments

From the El Paso Times: The U.S. Border Patrol and other agencies are investigating a tunnel discovered Thursday after a

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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
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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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