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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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  • 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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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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Duh.

2017-07-09 elrichiboy National Policy, Slider, World News 3 comments

Here’s the latest awareness from Homeland Security, via KVIA: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Friday that he told

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City of Dust: Pep, New Mexico

2017-07-08 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

A Lively and Energetic Place The first thing that strikes one about Pep, at least before visiting, is its name.

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Mexico’s Low Cost Airline

2017-07-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, World 2 comments

Lookie here. According to their website, a one-way ticket from Ciudad Juarez to Leon, Guanajuato, non-stop, booked more than a

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Eat At Monarch

2017-07-07 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Monarch has a food truck. Sorta. It would be a trailer if it had wheels. And if Clint had a

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Greetings From Guanajuato

2017-07-07 elrichiboy World One comment

Here I am in Guanajuato, the capital of the state of Guanajuato. Guanajuato is about in the middle of Mexico,

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The Landlord Class

2017-07-05 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Lookie here. We’ve got a problem. Say you want to open a business in El Paso. Maybe it’s a bar,

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Home Appraisals Steady, Apartment Appraisals Up

2017-07-03 elrichiboy Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a story from the June 25 issue of the El Paso Inc.: Preliminary valuations of single-family homes by the

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Monday Funday

2017-07-03 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 3 comments

Personally I have a hard time telling the days apart. They’re all work days. So I don’t dread Mondays. I

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • The Primary Elections
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

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