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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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  • “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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Sunday Matinee: Triple 9

2017-03-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool dirty cop movie, with the MS 13 and Russian mafia. What more could you ask for? With

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Scary video.

2017-03-04 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Here’s a horror movie that will keep you up at night. From the Masters of Horror over there at the

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Logan Starts Today

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Video, What to Do One comment

They say they shot some of this movie near El Paso. I haven’t seen it. Lemme know.

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Friday Short: The Gunfighter

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

I know you’re busy today, because we can’t all work for the the City, so here’s a short video to

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Follow the Money

2017-03-03 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Most El Pasoans aren’t aware that the City gets a little juice on all its projects. It’s called “Construction Management.”

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South by Southwest Will Rat You Out

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

Like Austin, South by Southwest used to be cool. Not anymore. Here’s part of their artists’ agreement, according to Rolling

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City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

2017-03-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust 90 comments

Pat Garret Really Should Have Stayed the Night Organ, New Mexico isn’t really a ghost town these days, but I’m

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#Highland Park, Episode 4: Larry Wants His Keys

2017-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

More from those folks at #Highland Park. Check it out.

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Retrovision: Trouble in Paradise

2017-03-02 elrichiboy Juarez, Retrovision Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on May 21, 2012. Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being

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The Problem With Economic Growth

2017-03-01 elrichiboy Economic Development, The Arena 6 comments

The problem with using Economic Growth as a rationale for building the arena is that the arena isn’t creating any

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AMLO Presente!

2017-03-01 elrichiboy Mexico, Politics, What to Do One comment

Next Monday, perennial Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador will visit El Paso courting the vote of Mexican expatriates.

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Why did they say Downtown in the first place?

2017-02-28 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

The Axis of Evil and their henchmen today announced that they still want to stick the arena in Union Plaza.

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Duh.

2017-02-28 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 4 comments

In an announcement that only surprised the members of City Council, City Staff yesterday revealed that the streets in El

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Protest Video

2017-02-28 elrichiboy Art, Politics One comment

Here’s a video with music by my little girl. No Ban No Wall March | 2.25.2017 from Sarah Vasquez on

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Drunk Trump

2017-02-27 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Have you seen these videos of President Trump slowed down? They’re probably on teevee. I don’t watch teevee.

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No GrassyAss

2017-02-27 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

The other day I came home from work and the pups wanted to play hide and seek. Luckily, I was

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I Love El Paso.

2017-02-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I love El Paso. I love the weather. I love the desert. I love those orange-red sunsets we sometimes get

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Sunday Matinee: Redemption

2017-02-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a creepy Western about a grave robber. Check it out.

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The Arena: Issue Fatigue

2017-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 2 comments

They stopped arguing. They’re just going to do it. They thought they could persuade us. Or, at least, present a

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White Power?

2017-02-22 elrichiboy Media, Politics 4 comments

Please read this article on the DailyKos. Unless the pictures are Photoshopped, it sure looks like some of our president’s

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • 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?

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