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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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There’s nothing wrong with EPISD that two thirds of billion dollars won’t fix. Well, hardly anything.

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

This from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is one of two Texas school districts that

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Contrabandistas

2016-10-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s the latest news from the El Paso Times, dateline June 16, 1924: With only three shells, Threepersons grabbed Jara,

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Common Wisdom

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

This is a partial text of a public comment made by Steve Strumer to El Paso City Council on 18

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Champions League

2016-10-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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Today’s Civics Lesson

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

I learned yesterday that the City’s values are Integrity, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, and People. I learned that because they were

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Tomorrow is the City Council Meeting About that Stupid Arena

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

The downtown arena is stupid. We don’t need it. We never needed it. And our elected officials aren’t telling us

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The World is Changing

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a video from 2011 telling us how the world was changing. But because it was made in 2011, it’s

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What about that arena?

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

You are probably perplexed by the impetus to put a new arena downtown. What’s going on there? More than meets

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It’s Time to Pick Up a New Hobby

2016-10-14 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Do you know what’s wrong with El Paso? If you think it’s no population growth, falling real wages, or one

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Who Wants the Arena?

2016-10-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

The City announced today that the new $180 million arena will be built in that cool historic neighborhood south of

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Get ready. Dystopia is just around the corner.

2016-10-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s some cheery news to put the upcoming weekend in perspective: According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The

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CLEAT Rides Again

2016-10-12 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

According to this story from KVIA, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas has asked the County of El Paso

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Hatch, USA

2016-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

It’s chile season. Maybe not for much longer, but ACT NOW to make sure you get your chile dose through

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Viva Mexico, Cabrones!

2016-10-12 elrichiboy Mexico, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a news story that tells us that Mexican politicians want to loosen up that country’s gun laws. A Senator

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If they’ve got the money, why don’t they fix the schools?

2016-10-12 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

The El Paso Independent School District wants you to believe that they will be good stewards of your tax dollars.

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Explaining Mr. Trump

2016-10-11 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Some people’s jobs are excuses for their bad behavior. “He’s a lawyer,” people will say. Or “What do you expect

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Let’s Build Something Shiny

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

Do you really think that all of the problems at the El Paso Independent School District will be addressed with

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They’ll Tell You Whatever Works

2016-10-07 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Those people promoting the El Paso Independent School District’s bond issue aren’t above playing fast and loose with whatever version

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Can I get some more money over here, please? I’ve squandered the money you already gave me.

2016-10-07 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

Do you think the only problems at the El Paso Independent School District are ageing infrastructures? And do you think,

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This Week in the Blogosphere

2016-10-07 elrichiboy Meta Blog Leave a comment

This week in the blogs: DavidK at RefusetheJuice and Jaime Abeytia of the LionStarBlog re-engaged in their long-running cat fight.

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • 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

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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