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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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Emily Davis Tour Kickoff at Proper Printshop Tonight!

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, music fans. El Paso’s songbird Emily Davis is playing a show at Proper Printshop to finance gas and ramen

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Our Economic Forecast

2016-12-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain

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What people watch

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times, delineating the most popular teevee shows in different markets. In El

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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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Oh, the irony.

2016-12-26 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Poor Ann Morgan Lilly. She’s like the queen of a country that no longer exists, and she can’t quite come

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El Rocinante

2016-12-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Juarez is cheap. A dollar buys twenty pesos now. And

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Do You Mind?

2016-12-23 Reesa Turner Unreliable Narrative 6 comments

Integrative medicine is a big thing these days…exercise, deep breathing, yoga, acupuncture, art workshops. Aiming to calm the mind and

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Brooklyn Nights at Hope and Anchor Tonight

2016-12-22 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Hope and Anchor hosts DJ Farbeon tonight. He’ll be spinning True School Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Rock and House from

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Now we know who drives the truck.

2016-12-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 3 comments

I lifted this from the Paso del Sur’s Facebook page about their meeting with elected officials last Friday. For all

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Tuesday Night Fights: Mr. Ann Morgan Lilly vs. Mrs. Mayor

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story about the husband of former City Representative Ann Morgan Lilly allegedly assaulting Mayor Oscar Leeser’s

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Mexican Booze for the Holidays

2016-12-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Have you done your holiday shopping yet? Or maybe you need some libations for the end of year celebration. Either

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Did We Take Our City Back?

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There

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Breaking News: Dogfight at City Hall

2016-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate

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Go Local: Holiday Edition

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015]. Somehow the holidays always sneak up on me. I always used to

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Miles Davis with LCD Soundsystem

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

How’s your life? Do you sometimes feel like your existence is meaningless? Like the world is sucking pit of despair?

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El Arbolito Lives!

2016-12-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The Arbolito, that little dive bar that used to be located on Mariscal, next to the Día y Noche, is

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Hiking the Franklins

2016-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Friday woke up with charcoal gray clouds camped to the north. The polar vortex was coming, the weathermen said. Winds.

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Green Men’s Greensleeves

2016-12-17 GC Adams Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Times’ recent article by the Russians on the lady with 6,000 Christmas trees made me realize that

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Hal Marcus’ Hippie Holidaze

2016-12-16 elrichiboy Go Local, What to Do One comment

Don’t you just love Christmas shopping? Going to the mall, and looking for a parking spot, and then elbowing your

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Our Local Government In Action

2016-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Well, it looks like the City of El Paso will do a better thing than kick poor people out of

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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?

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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