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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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Now I Need a Bigger Hat

2017-04-30 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

We’re famous. From Aljazeera: In the early 1970s, Richard Wright, a native of El Paso, Texas, began crossing the then

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JRZ Musicfest June 16 & 17

2017-04-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Music, What to Do 3 comments

Zowie. They’re having some shindig over in Juarez in June. The headliners, for instance, are Los Tigres del Norte and

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Rincón de San Narcos Marcos

2017-04-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from the Daily Beast titled The Narco Trafficker Next Door that gives a shout out to our

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Why Our Streets Have Potholes

2017-04-28 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

One of the first issues our next mayor is going to have to confront is the budget. We’re in debt,

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Desponchadora Rapidito

2017-04-28 elrichiboy Cost of Living, How to Live in El Paso One comment

In Mexico, the three biggest industries are petroleum, public corruption, and desponchadoras. There are so many desponchadoras in Juarez that

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Free Money

2017-04-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

Giving the City the authority to grant millions of dollars in tax rebates is a Petrie dish for corruption. Come

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How to Be a Latin Lover Trailer

2017-04-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Here’s a trailer for a movie that premieres this weekend. Check it out.

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City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico

2017-04-27 John Mulhouse City of Dust 16 comments

Little Place on the Prairie The Homestead Act of 1862 was an attempt by the U.S. government to entice citizens

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Viva Tirado Live

2017-04-27 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

There’s the scene in Up In Smoke where Cheech says, “We play every kind of music. Everything from Santana to

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Ski Jump Tires

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

When I was a kid we’d find old tires up on the mesas and roll them off. Somehow it’s oddly

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1 + 1 = Infinity

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

It occurred to me as I was walking home from Monarch right now that I missed the obvious conclusion of

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Brand Management Chuco-Style

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso 2 comments

There’s a branch of marketing that apparently hasn’t made its way to El Paso yet. It’s called Brand Management. At

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If You Don’t Expect Too Much, You Won’t Be Disappointed

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Politics Leave a comment

Maybe it’s because El Pasoans are used to paying less than retail. But we sure are in the habit of

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Titilating Speculation

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

Here’s an entry from Jaime Barceleau’s Campaign Finance Report. Mr. Barceleau is campaigning to be the City Representative for District

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Those Poor Dears

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

God bless our city’s business leaders. This is from a story in this weeks’s El Paso Inc.: “The reason the

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Whale, That Escalated Quickly

2017-04-24 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I read an article about neuroplasticity and it appears the plasticity of my neuro is selective. I over-sleep two days

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Sunday Matinee: Delicatessen

2017-04-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Have you seen this flick? It’s kind of an art movie, or something. IMDb calls it a “post-apocalyptic black comedy.”

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UTEP’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble: Layali Al-Sham

2017-04-22 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a video about UTEP’s middle eastern music ensemble that I lifted from Facebook. Check it out.

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Is It Trickle Down Economics, or Are You Peeing On My Leg?

2017-04-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

There is no group of citizens in less need of government support than the leisure class. But those are the

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City of Dust: Elizabethtown, New Mexico

2017-04-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

From what I can tell, people who read City of Dust are pretty much split between those who enjoy the

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The People Speak!

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  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
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  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
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  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
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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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