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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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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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Wood and Wire at Star City Studios on Friday

2018-01-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Wood and Wire is an extremely talented and very nice bluegrass band from Austin, Texas. From their bio: It’s been

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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, School Districts 4 comments

This is a lightly edited version of an article that originally appeared on 6 June 2013. Since then, very little

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Big Changes at City Hall

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Remember when the rationale for all those pricey public amenities was “to shift the property tax burden from residential to

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This Bud’s For You

2018-01-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 4 comments

It’s just not what it used to be. From CNN: Before 2001, Budweiser was the top-selling U.S. beer, but it

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Tomorrow’s City Council Agenda

2018-01-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Tomorrow should be rip-roaring City Council meeting. City Council will vote tomorrow on an item limiting their own ability to

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Sunday Matinee: Stiletto

2018-01-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Over the top characters drive this hyper-violent crime story based on a graphic novel. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Saturday Matinee: Guardians of the Night

2018-01-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s Men in Black. With vampires. In Moscow. http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/district-attorney-will-not-file-charges-for-alleged-violation-of-open-meetings-act/687658317 Check it out, if you’ve got an hour and a half

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Friday Short: The Space Between Us

2018-01-19 elrichiboy Shorts, Video One comment

Here’s a Dutch short that is supposed to closely resemble the movie The Shape of Water. Watch this video on

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The 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

2018-01-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Where is it? Here’s the Financial Reports page for City of El Paso’s Office of the Comptroller. The latest Comprehensive

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Sunday Matinee: Street Kings

2018-01-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Keanu Reeves movie about dirty cops. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Does This Sound Like El Paso?

2018-01-13 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

From a 2009 El Paso Inc. interview with Woody Hunt: Q. How does corruption impact economic development? If the procurement

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Retrovision: An Arena? Really?

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

This article originally appeared on January 10, 2017. Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on

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City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico

2018-01-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

This Is Not a Ghost Town Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west

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Today’s English Lesson

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Watch this video on YouTube It sounds like English, but they definitely dance in Italian.

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All The News That Fits Our Agenda

2018-01-11 elrichiboy Media, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Back in 2009, El Paso Inc. ran an interview titled Q and A with Woody Hunt The Real Cost of

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Retrovision: Regional Economic Development

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 13 August 2015. The Borderplex Alliance, an entity dedicated to regional economic development, commissioned a

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“You Can’t Go Home Again”

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives Leave a comment

From Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the time preceding the stock market crash of 1929: “But he spoke at length about

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Conveniently Located Halfway Between Warsaw, Poland, and the Fiji Islands

2018-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

I wasn’t able to attend yesterday’s special City Council meeting. So I didn’t get to witness the Hunt Institute for

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Isn’t That Special

2018-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Today there’s a special meeting of City Council. I was hoping to attend, but life had other plans for me.

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Sunday Matinee: The Butcher

2018-01-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Have you had your dose of over-the-top violence today? Here’s an Eric Roberts movie about a ex-boxer who has fallen

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