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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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City of El Paso: Values

2017-01-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

According to the Employee Handbook for the City of El Paso, the city’s values are: Integrity Respect Excellence Accountability People

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Crowder on the Arena

2017-01-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This week David Crowder unpacks the arena rebate, and things aren’t what the City told us. From an article titled

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Private Letter Rulings from the Comptroller

2017-01-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

If you want to know if your project qualifies for some arcane tax credit, you ask the Texas Comptroller for

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The Joker in the Deck

2017-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Who wins if we build an arena? Obviously whichever firm is selected to build it. (Maybe we can just give

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#Highland Park Episode 2

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the second episode from #Highland Park, that web series about gentrification in El Lay. #HighlandPark – Episode 2: Basketball

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Brujeria at Tricky Falls on Sunday

2017-01-13 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I am not a fan of heavy metal. I don’t like the headbanging. I don’t like the distorted vocals. I

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3 Cheap Bars

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

Over the last two years, the peso has lost about a third of its value. Yesterday it was trading at

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Let’s be reasonable.

2017-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

I don’t really blame the local multi-millionaires for buying City Council. I blame City Council for letting them. Money gives

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The Empire Strikes Back!

2017-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

That really harshes my mellow.

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#Highland Park

2017-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the pilot for a series out of El Lay about Chicanos in a neighborhood called Highland Park. Which brings

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An Arena? Really?

2017-01-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The

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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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EPEC At It Again

2017-01-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google

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It’s Election Time. Sort of.

2017-01-06 elrichiboy City Council, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season

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The Truth About Duranguito

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one

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Corruption at DHS

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve often wondered why the Juarez plaza is so hotly contested by Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations. I surmise that there’s

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The Texas Standard with Rich Wright

2017-01-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Yesterday we were driving up to Carlsbad Caverns and we heard this piece on the radio. I guess they were

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The People Speak!

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  • Cynthia J Gomez 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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