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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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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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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!

2016-11-17 Reesa Turner Art Leave a comment

by Reesa Turner I visited the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this October. It’s near the Staples center…where Hollywood Park

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I’ve got a pal in Kalamazoo

2016-11-17 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Did you hear about the philanthropists in Kalamazoo, Michigan? The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan recently approached two local philanthropists about

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Is your City Representative lying to you?

2016-11-17 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 5 comments

As I wiped the sleep from my eyes this morning, I fully expected to see those damning emails in today’s

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M. A. M. O. N.

2016-11-16 elrichiboy Art, Politics Leave a comment

This is good. M.A.M.O.N. – Latinos VS. Donald Trump / Ale Damiani from Taxi Films on Vimeo.

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A New Development in the Rail Yard Controversy

2016-11-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 2 comments

Here’s a twist. According to KVIA: El Paso city Rep. Cortney Niland charged today that the Union Pacific Railroad is

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El Paso: A Metaphor

2016-11-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. Things haven’t improved since then. El Paso is like that really nice

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Mission Accomplished!

2016-11-15 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Take a look at this October 24 story from the El Paso Inc. Now that City Council has approved a

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City Council: “If we’d known the truth, we probably would have chosen the rail yard.”

2016-11-14 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? A majority of City Council members told the El Paso

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Are we getting hosed?

2016-11-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s the latest from the committee with the Orwellian name, the Public Service Board, via the Times: El Paso Water

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Another Ultimate Video

2016-11-12 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Here’s another great video from the World Junior Ultimate Championships. Check it out.

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Save Union Plaza

2016-11-12 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, What to Do Leave a comment

Our public officials are kicking poor people out of their homes so rich people can watch events from luxury suites.

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Igor and the Red Elvises at 5 Points Bistro on Sunday!

2016-11-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

That’s right. Your favorite band is playing on the patio at the 5 Points Bistro, on Sunday with a special

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Bullfight this Sunday

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

If you’re a bullfight aficionado, you’ve already seen El Zotoluco. Over the last almost 20 years he’s fought in more

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  • 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
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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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