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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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Julian Aguilar on the Juarez Violence

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Julian Aguilar is a brilliant journalist and photographer in Ciudad Juarez. He’s lived there long enough to know some stuff,

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The City wants to run the CRRMA. What could possibly go wrong?

2016-11-29 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The mayor and the City Council said Monday they will

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El Late Night with Special Guest Richard Wright

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Walking across the bridge, I wish I’d brought a scarf, except the holiday house guests were between me and the

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Kentucky Club Sanctioned for Discrimination Against Indigenous

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

Well, the Kentucky Club is in the news again, and not for anything good. LaPolaka (Noticias en Caliente)* reports that

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You must be rich, or you couldn’t owe so much money.

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Did you know that, despite having household incomes about twenty percent less than the rest of Texas, the City of

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Twice the Fools

2016-11-28 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I want to apologize to my children. Actually, on behalf of every American who’s voted in the last 100 years,

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Patience, patience

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Downtown Management District Executive Director Joe Gudenrath sees a very faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.

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Mow Glee

2016-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

[El Chuqueño would like to welcome our newest contributor GC Adams presenting this musical interlude.] by GC Adams Mary got

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Feliz Día Desgracia

2016-11-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

Today is the day we express our thanks for everything we should be thankful for. Like family. Friends. Sunshine. Music.

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The Chamanas at Lowbrow Palace Tonight

2016-11-23 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Local rock stars the Chamanas play the Lowbrow Palace at a free, all age show tonight. The nominal start time

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Jim Tolbert’s Hamilton Moment

2016-11-23 Reesa Turner City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 11 comments

by Reesa Turner I confronted my acquaintance, Jim Tolbert at the Castner Range Forever event, in the 10 minutes or

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The Definition of “Ancillary”

2016-11-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, The Arena Leave a comment

From our good friends at Google: adjective: ancillary providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization,

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Arena-gate: Another lie?

2016-11-22 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

This weekend the El Paso Inc. ran a story about the City’s newest volley in the fight over the arena.

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Stomp and the Globetrotters

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Check it out:

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Champions League Tomorrow

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports, Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Greetings, sports fans. Tomorrow is the fifth week of the first playoff round of the Champions League of the Union

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El Mariachi Rides Again!

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

There’s a new bar over on the Drag. El Mariachi. Okay, it’s not new if you’re a dinosaur. But still,

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Taking a Ride

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How long, till, like the Wyler Aerial Tramway, it

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The Summer of ’69

2016-11-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media, Slider 2 comments

A conscious reader alerted me to this piece on MSN.com: When Michael Lightbourn agreed to look at an old hot

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Boeing closing local plant, sending jobs to Huntsville

2016-11-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, sports One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? Boeing, an important part of El Paso’s defense industry for years,

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The Lost Emails: Day 4

2016-11-19 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena 3 comments

I got up early this morning, while the rest of the house was asleep, and booted up my laptop, as

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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”
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