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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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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A lower case “d” Democrat

2024-06-10 Xavier Miranda Opinion, Politics, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed.  However, the rationale for

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“Guilty Bystander”

2024-06-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)”

2024-06-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women

2024-06-06 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Politics, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as

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Arena Tours are Dinosaurs

2024-06-03 Rich Wright Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 2 comments

Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing

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“1984”

2024-06-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Market Organs”

2024-06-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States

2024-05-29 Kent Paterson History, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in

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Heather Wilson’s Folly

2024-05-28 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 6 comments

UTEP’s president Heather Wilson wants the County of El Paso to ask the voters of the county to give the

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Is El Paso Cool?

2024-05-26 Rich Wright Culture, Economic Development, Slider 12 comments

I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at

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“The Seven-Ups”

2024-05-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Deadly Shootouts & Betrayals: Inside the Bandidos”

2024-05-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Corruption and the Decline of El Paso

2024-05-21 Rich Wright Arrogance, Corruption, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Renard Johnson, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

Some people would have you believe that El Paso’s apogee was 1950, and we’ve been in steady decline ever since.

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Humphrey Bogart in “Call it Murder”

2024-05-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Rollo: The Dark Age Warrior Who Became King of Normandy”

2024-05-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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HARRY NELSON SHIPLEY: THE “BIG KID” OF THE JUAREZ PLAYGROUND, Part 1

2024-05-17 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider One comment

by Bob Chessey During the 1920’s Juarez was a bustling adult recreational destination flaunting legal alcohol, saloons, cabarets, legal prostitution,

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The “Future of El Paso” Debacle

2024-05-16 Rich Wright Economic Development, Heather Wilson, Slider Leave a comment

If you only get your news from El Chuqueño, you missed this piece of news. From ElPasoMatters.com: The National Science

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More of What You Should Expect

2024-05-14 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, The Environment One comment

From the El Paso Times: Once again bucking the will of a chorus of El Paso residents, the El Paso

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“Cry Danger”

2024-05-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Dark Web | Black Market Trade”

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