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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: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

2017-12-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a thriller that has almost everything we like: Mexico, occasional violence, and a little Vikki Carr. Watch this video

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City of Dust: Newkirk, New Mexico

2017-12-08 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

Getting Less Kicks Newkirk, New Mexico is a bit of an enigma. It doesn’t show up in ghost town guides–probably

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The Crab Bucket Analogy Revisited

2017-12-08 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

See, there were all these crabs in a bucket. And the rich crabs said, “Hey, let’s make a better bucket.

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That Crab Pot Analogy

2017-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

Lately I’ve been hearing that crab pot analogy a lot. Paul Foster mentioned it in his TEDx talk, and Jim

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The Lying Liars at City Hall

2017-12-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

Maybe you read this in the El Paso Times: El Paso’s Hispanic, bilingual workforce was a major selling point for

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Se Fueron de Rancho El Paso

2017-12-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

City Government does what the rich folks want, and then tells the rest of us it’s good for us. It’s

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Disneyland, Chuco-style

2017-12-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, Trolley One comment

I almost feel sorry for those nice people at the City. They try so hard. But even with the best

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Champions League Today

2017-12-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans, here’s a gift for all of you who are encumbered by day jobs. Champions League is winnowing

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Fake News

2017-12-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

To hear him tell it, he’s a victim. From the El Paso Times story about the money the City has

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What a Bargain!

2017-12-03 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times about the money the City has spent fighting to put

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Sunday Matinee: Kill Me Again

2017-12-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a neo-noir thriller starring Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen, with Val’s wife-at-the-time Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. Watch this video on YouTube

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The New Upscale Coffee Joint on Avenida Juarez

2017-12-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

I can’t drink coffee after noon. Well, I can, but then I don’t sleep at night. I’ve got blood like

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Paul Foster’s Vision for El Paso

2017-12-01 elrichiboy Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

Here’s Paul Foster presenting his vision for El Paso at the recent TEDx El Paso event. When, do you suppose,

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The Best Flautas in Juarez

2017-11-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Or so they say. La Pila #2 is down there in La Chaveña, south of downtown, west of the tracks.

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City of Dust: Clayton, New Mexico

2017-11-29 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

When Your Rope’s Too Long Clayton, New Mexico is a little bit out of the way. You’re probably not going

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Cosmonauts at Monarch on Thursday

2017-11-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, sponsored, What to Do Leave a comment

Here’s a show we can all get behind. The Cosmonauts play jangly, gloopy, alt-rock. Like this: Watch this video on

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Why Everything the Government Does Is Expensive

2017-11-28 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes One comment

Here’s a John Stossel story on a $2 million bathroom in New York City. Watch this video on YouTube Sound

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Nurturing Kudzu

2017-11-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Good news, everyone. From KVIA: Transmountain partners is planning to build a massive new mall and entertainment complex expected to

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Is El Paso City Government a Secret Public/Private Partnership?

2017-11-27 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Nothing else makes sense. The City is pursuing a plan formulated by the Paso del Norte Group, a bunch of

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Sunday Matinee: Murder By Contract

2017-11-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a killer low-budget 1958 film noir about a hitman. Check out the cars. Check out the proto-surf tunes. Check

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  • 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
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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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