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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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We’re Not Last!

2017-07-25 elrichiboy Education 2 comments

Here’s a list from everybody’s favorite click-bait list creator. WalletHub did a study of the most and least educated MSAs

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All That Was

2017-07-25 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube Memories are fickle things. I can have a conversation and struggle to remember something from

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The City Budget is Fake

2017-07-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Or at least extremely conservative. The proposed budget show sales tax revenues declining by $525,000. El Paso hasn’t experienced a

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U2 on YouTube in El Paso

2017-07-24 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.

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Sunday Matinee: Deadlier Than the Male

2017-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 3 comments

Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not

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Friday Short: A Great Day in Harlem

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a great documentary I found on somebody’s Facebook. (You know who you are.) It features all the jazz greats

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We’re Zigging When We Should Be Zagging

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects 2 comments

Our city leaders have been ostensibly pursuing strategies that lead to economic development. If that’s their real goal, then they’re

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Alberto Halpern GoFundMe Account

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

As you know, Alberto “Beto” Halpern was seriously hurt in a car accident three days after his wedding and three

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The Ouija Speaks!

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider 2 comments

My Ouija board says they’re all shook up in the halls of power around here. Not about the court’s decision

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Maths

2017-07-18 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

Let’s see. $66 million in Certificates of Obligation raises the average residential tax bill $50 a year. So issuing $180

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Doña Ana County Jail Director Busted For Pot

2017-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Did you read that the Doña Ana County Jail Director got busted for pot? From the Las Cruces Sun Times:

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The Beat Goes On

2017-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, 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 One comment

Did you read this weekend’s El Paso Inc.? It’s pretty good. Here’s the lede from one story: What began as

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Sunday Matinee: Agent 505: Death Trap Beirut

2017-07-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s one of those cartoonish James Bond secret agent knockoffs that I cut my milk teeth on. Watch this video

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DavidK on the Local Democratic Primary

2017-07-14 elrichiboy Elections, Meta Blog, Politics 3 comments

DavidK has an early analysis of the upcoming Escobar versus Fennenbock race for the Democrat nomination for Beto’s open Congressional

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City of Dust: House, New Mexico

2017-07-14 John Mulhouse City of Dust 9 comments

On the Edge of the Staked Plain The more I learn about the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain, the massive

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Salud!

2017-07-13 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

I’m standing at the bar in a 97-year-old cantina in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. The whole bar is about fifteen feet

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TopGolf Will Save Us

2017-07-12 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

I’ve got a math problem for you. Don’t worry, we’re not giving grades, and we’re not asking for real numbers

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Read My Lips

2017-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

Did you vote for Dee Margo because he promised to “hold the line on taxes”? Psych! KVIA reports that our

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What’s Your Speed?

2017-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I drove from El Paso down to Port Aransas in south Texas for some business

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Three Years and Fifty Weeks To Go

2017-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 7 comments

You’ve probably heard that El Paso’s latest mayor doesn’t want to hear from the proles. Via the El Paso Times:

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • “The Second Woman”
  • “Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”
  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

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