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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: The General

2016-10-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the Buster Keaton classic from 1926. This one has a soundtrack, but it’s a silent movie, so you can

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The High Cost of Top-Down Gentrification

2016-10-29 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Here’s a killer story from Chucopedia by Moncia Krause about the neighbors who live in the footprint and the shadow

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Livin’ Easy, Lovin’ Free

2016-10-28 elrichiboy Art, It's All Good 2 comments

You can thank me for this one later.

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Texas Hold ’em

2016-10-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 8 comments

Local politics is like Texas Hold ’em. The players won’t show you all their cards, so you look at what’s

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Weather Forecast

2016-10-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I remember when we had to bundle up for Trick or Treat. When sitting in the stands for high school

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Visit to the Blogosphere

2016-10-27 elrichiboy Meta Blog Leave a comment

Man, that blogosphere is a scary place. Lemme show you. Since we’ve visited him last, Max Powers has been raising

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Abdou Diary

2016-10-27 elrichiboy Art, Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

by Hope Wright I’d like to tell you that I’ve puked in every bathroom in the Abdou Building. But that

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Happy Days are Here Again!

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. All that economic development we’ve been planning for is starting to pay off. According to this

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Downtown Diary, the Last One: Part 2

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Art, Downtown Leave a comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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WJUC Highlights Video

2016-10-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s are the freshest highlights of the finals of the World Junior (U 20) Ultimate Championship, in Poland. Fresh as

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El Paso Unified School District

2016-10-25 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is pushing their “innovation” as an enticement to support their upcoming $669 million bond

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Public Office? We shouldn’t even let them use public restrooms.

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Last week City Council voted to kick poor people out of their homes so rich people could watch basketball from

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Downtown Diary: The Last One

2016-10-24 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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Not on fire, just smoldering

2016-10-24 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

In an ongoing effort to “inform” the voters, someone posting on Facebook as EPISD Board Member Susie Byrd claimed that,

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The $669 Million Question

2016-10-22 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 4 comments

Originally published way back on 7 September 2016 The El Paso Independent School District wants us to give them $669

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Don’t Buy Your Season Tickets Just Yet

2016-10-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Our City Council on Tuesday past voted unanimously to approve the site of the downtown arena, even if it required

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I guess somebody noticed.

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider, Taxes One comment

Mr. Bob Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, informed me via Facebook that the Specific Interest Committee Campaign Finance

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Jorge Talks

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In an interview with El Universal, Jorge, a purported chief in La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel,

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo: Chris Trian

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s what Proper Printshop’s Facebook page says about Art en Vivo: Art en Vivo is a live screen printing project

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Do Western Refining’s Shareholders Know?

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized One comment

Corporate boards have a responsibility to their shareholders, and generally those shareholders expect the corporate boards to maximize profits. It’s

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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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