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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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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Free To Good Home, Chile Pequin Plants

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

I’ve got about six or nine Chile Pequin plants growing in pots, and I’d like to offshore them before it’s

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The Left Hand Doesn’t Know the Lies the Right Hand Is Telling

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

Lookie here. Here’s a slide from the presentation that the City of El Paso’s Director of Economic Development Jessica Herrera

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Is The City Paying Companies To Not Leave Town?

2017-11-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

At the October 3, 2017, meeting, the El Paso City Council passed the following ordinance: That the City Manager is

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City of Dust: Pinos Altos, New Mexico

2017-11-07 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

High Pines About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive

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El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen

2017-11-06 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso

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Where’s Peter?

2017-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Elections 3 comments

Here’s former City Representative and mayoral candidate Steve Ortega talking about the trolley in the El Paso Scene: Among the

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Orion and Us

2017-11-06 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Tonight, when I took the dogs out, low in the sky on the east end

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Sunday Matinee: Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains

2017-11-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie from Kyrgyzstan. Who would have thunk it? Here’s a quote from the Hollywood Times: [Sharon] Stone called

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Mexican Tiger Trap

2017-11-03 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Mexico One comment

La Polaka, Periodismo en Caliente, reports a wave of retaliatory violence in Western Chihuahua following the arrest of the drug

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El Paso Electric Fund Drive

2017-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 2 comments

With the holidays coming up, it’s time to consider those of us who are less fortunate. Like those poor dears

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As Goes Baltimore, So Goes El Paso

2017-11-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

Here’s an abstract of a scholarly article from the Journal of Urban Affairs. The title of the paper is “Downtown

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I Love El Paso

2017-11-02 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

El Paso is a great town. The people are friendly and unpretentious. The weather’s good, mostly. The sunsets are often

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The Money Quote

2017-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes Leave a comment

After I posted that article yesterday, about El Paso’s low salaries, I was reminded that I left out the best

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All I Want is Good Government

2017-10-31 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, MountainStar Sports Group, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.

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Surprise! We’re Poor!

2017-10-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Inc., jobs in El Paso pay only 72 percent of the national

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Sunday Matinee: The Card

2017-10-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

In America, this 1952 movie was released as The Promoter. It features a 38 year-old Alec Guinness as Edward Henry

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Blame the Boomers

2017-10-27 elrichiboy National Policy, World 4 comments

Here’s an interesting hypothesis: The country is in it’s sorry state because the Baby Boomers are sociopaths. Even before the

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City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico

2017-10-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

In the Shadow of the Buffalo Hunters There are some towns out on the eastern plains of New Mexico, not

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Hairly Legal

2017-10-24 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I missed my real calling, playing in a hair band. I still could, I guess,

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Why They Need an Arena

2017-10-23 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

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