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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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Hillary’s Body Double?

2016-09-12 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

I don’t want to pick sides in this election, but there’s something to this theory. After suffering a collapse at

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There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around

2016-09-12 elrichiboy National Policy, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting perspective on September 11 and the War on Terror, from the Nation: On the morning of September

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Vaginal Delivery: $166.67

2016-09-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

With a FEMAP membership, having a baby via the traditional method only costs $3000 Mexican pesos, or $166.67 U.S. dollars

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El Paso Public (Seed) Library

2016-09-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s something cool. The El Paso Library will give you seeds for your garden. All they ask is that when

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Don’t forget to write.

2016-09-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Taxes 2 comments

I was muddling around the World Wide Web the other day and I came across this disturbing graphic from the

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Ultimate!

2016-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Killers and the Hitchhiker

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media Leave a comment

This sounds like a movie. Read it now, or watch in a couple of years on our Sunday Matinee. A

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Do You Like Cigarettes After Sex?

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Because they’re playing tonight they played last night at the Lowbrow Palace. Check it out.

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Remember when El Paso was cool? They’re back.

2016-09-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Remember this story I posted back in March about that El Paso band Cigarettes After Sex that achieved internet stardom

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Death by a Thousand Cuts

2016-09-06 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. has a story this week about this year’s tax increases. Tax hikes are rarely popular. This

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Consultation With a Doctor: $3.35

2016-09-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

What could be more fun than talking about health care? Our deductible is so high that I don’t even know

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Sunday Matinee: Get the Gringo

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

For you viewing pleasure, Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson, in a Mexican prison. This is the best movie you’re

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Credit Where Credit is Due

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Media One comment

We built this city on rock and roll.

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We’re on the wrong side of the future.

2016-09-02 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 6 comments

The biggest major at UTEP is Criminal Justice. Because law enforcement and corrections are the biggest employers in El Paso.

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Here’s Something You Weren’t Expecting

2016-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

City Council should get a raise. I know that they’re pretty worthless and they haven’t been doing us any favors.

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Can you get a cheaper EpiPen in Juarez?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

I was going to tell you how you could get an EpiPen in Jaurez. You know, like in Canada: The

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What were you thinking?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

All those QoL projects are stupid. I think that none of them will significantly improve anyone’s real Quality of Life,

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Now It’s Just a Matter of Time

2016-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

Well, we’ve got bars and hotels. Triple A ball. A nice park in the middle of downtown. Pokemon Go. Big

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Velando Juan Gabriel

2016-08-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Juan Gabriel, I think, shaped the way gays in Juarez think about themselves. On Avenida Juarez, Juanga stares down from

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Sunday Matinee

2016-08-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the 2010 grind classic, Machete, on YouTube. And remember, Machete don’t text.

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  • Shopping South El Paso Street
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
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