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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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Sunday Matinee: Hmm

2017-02-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

I like to screen these movies before I subject you to them, but I’ve been busy, and I haven’t seen

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If You Stand Up, You Get Knocked Down.

2017-02-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Politics, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

The El Paso County Historical Commission stood up to the fat cats trying to kick the poor people out of

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Do You Know This Woman?

2017-02-05 elrichiboy Art, Media 2 comments

“A woman is suspected of using stolen credit cards, and the El Paso Police Department is asking for the public’s

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What’s My Point?

2017-02-02 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Since 2012, El Paso’s population has only grown by 4,723. El Paso has the third highest property tax rates in

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“We don’t need no stinkin’ wall.”

2017-02-02 elrichiboy Art, Mexico One comment

Soon to be a standard for mariachi bands all across the border. Pretty good. Check it out.

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The Chamber’s War on Taxpayers

2017-02-02 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story in this week’s El Paso Inc.? Historic preservationists are pressing ahead with a plan to

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Hollywood is Dead! Long Live El Paso!

2017-02-01 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Hollywood is dead and they don’t even know it. At least that’s the premise of this story in Vanity Fair.

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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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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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