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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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#HighlandPark Episode 3: Child Support

2017-02-01 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

More from the video series #HighlandPark. A one-man monologue on life. Check it out.

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Unbiased Reporting?

2017-02-01 elrichiboy Media, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Do you think you can get the truth from the El Paso Times? Look at this column from Ramon Bracamontes

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City of Dust: Claunch, New Mexico

2017-01-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 12 comments

Pinto Beans and Singing Conventions Claunch’s position in central New Mexico put it firmly within the pinto bean empire of

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El Zocalo on Avenida Juarez

2017-01-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 2 comments

El Zocalo is improbably located on Avenida Juarez, near Dieciseis, where the tunnel erupts into the street. I say improbably

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Who are the men behind the curtain?

2017-01-31 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

There are some powerful forces supporting putting the arena in Duranguito. Weird, huh? Who wants the arena? Obviously no one

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‘Es Mi Tierra’

2017-01-30 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Chicano Batman performs ‘This Land is Your Land,’ sponsored by Johnny Walker. How come El Lay gets all the love?

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It’s Good to Get Out

2017-01-30 elrichiboy Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Last night I had to the opportunity to talk to some people I hadn’t met before. I handed them some

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Sunday Matinee: Another Superb Western

2017-01-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 4 comments

This movie is a parable of our time. Maybe. Check it out.

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La Malinche

2017-01-28 elrichiboy If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it Leave a comment

From Wikipedia: La Malinche (c. 1496 or c. 1501 – c. 1529), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin, or Doña Marina,

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Lucero at Tricky Falls on February 12

2017-01-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Of all the things you could possibly do on Sunday, February 12, none will put a strut in your walk

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The Chamber of Commerce and the Arena

2017-01-27 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, The Arena One comment

Isn’t it curious that the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce supports the arena? Wouldn’t you think that the Chamber

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On Donald Trump

2017-01-27 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

I was going to write about how bitching about Donald Trump was a waste of breath. About how we have

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About Ethics

2017-01-25 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 5 comments

The fur is flying in a couple of ethics investigations. Unfortunately it looks like the good guys stepped in poo.

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It’s a Class War

2017-01-24 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Politics, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

I hate to say it because it’s so inflammatory. But look at it. Rich people trying to kick poor people

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Throne Together

2017-01-23 GC Adams Slider Leave a comment

We just returned from a trip that was primarily composed of long episodes of driving interrupted by brief encounters with

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The Arena: An El Chuqueño Retrospective

2017-01-23 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Here at El Chuqueño I’ve written a lot about the proposed downtown arena. You might be surprised to find out

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Job Opportunity: EPISD Board of Trustees

2017-01-23 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District reports that four board seats are up for election in May. The seats up

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Sunday Matinee: A Superb Shakespearean Western

2017-01-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

This movie features betrayal and a man with a code. It’s beautiful, in an ugly way. Somehow they loaded it

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Who doesn’t?

2017-01-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

I guess this guy heard there was a march for women and he thought it was an offer.

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Major Controversy at San Jacinto Plaza

2017-01-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Can you spot what’s wrong with this picture? Look again. I’ll wait. Lean in. Here, I’ll zoom in: That’s right.

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The People Speak!

  • 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?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

El Chuqueño Lately

  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
  • 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”

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