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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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  • “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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“Why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer | Us & Them”

2024-09-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“He sued [El Paso] police for an illegal arrest – then they came after him”

2024-09-18 elrichiboy City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment
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Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in “Café of the Seven Sinners”

2024-09-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Gentrification and Income Inequality in Oaxaca

2024-09-12 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

The benefits of “economic development” are unequally distributed. Sound familiar? Here’s a story bout that theme, and censorship, and tourism

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Green Screen B-Roll El Paso

2024-09-11 elrichiboy Movie Night 2 comments

El Paso is prominently featured in this 2022 movie starring Liam Neeson.

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“Moontide”

2024-09-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Viking Invasions of Ireland, 795-1014: The Complete History”

2024-09-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Anti Onward Alameda Press Conference

2024-09-04 elrichiboy City Management, Culture, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

On July 15,2022, I wrote about the Onward Alamedo project here. “The city has another project on the burner called

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“Papa Was A Rolling Stone”

2024-09-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“The Dark Past”

2024-09-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The man of the cliffs”

2024-08-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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BOHICA

2024-08-29 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Deck Park, Ricardo Samaniego, Slider 4 comments

If you liked the way the ballpark deal went down, you’re going to love the deck park. From CBS4Local.com: On

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Movin’ On Up

2024-08-28 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, News 3 comments

Rolando Pablos, the former CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, and former Texas Secretary of State, and maybe he had some

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“The City of El Paso’s Inflection Point and Public Safety Dilemma”

2024-08-28 Rich Wright El Paso Fire Department, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

If you listen to all the politicians running for office, Public Safety is one of the top concerns for all

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Who Does Our State Delegation Represent?

2024-08-27 Rich Wright César Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Deck Park, El Paso Delegation, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 2 comments

Normally if voters wanted to derail TxDOT’s plans to widen the freeway through downtown El Paso, they could complain to

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Humphrey Bogart in “Sirocco”

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“The Man Who Lost Over a Billion Dollars”

2024-08-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“La Señora” by Mariel la abogada featuring Emma Coronel

2024-08-23 elrichiboy Mexico, Music Leave a comment

InsightCrime.com reports that Mariel “la abogada” Colon was a lawyer for both Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera and his wife

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Food & Wine & Hatch Chiles

2024-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Well, it’s chile season. So FoodandWine.com has an article. Perhaps you’re wondering what all the fuss is about. They’re just

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Where Do Politicians Go After They Term Out?

2024-08-23 Rich Wright Elections, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 5 comments

Five days ago Isabel Salcido filed to run for Mayor. Twelve days ago I received a text message poll about

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

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