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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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A Rare Word from the El Paso Times

2016-08-28 elrichiboy Media, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

This was on their website today: The problem is that people tend to gauge their ability to afford purchases based

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Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears at Tricky Falls TONIGHT!!!

2016-08-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This is the last time I’m going to tell you. Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears are playing at

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Live Large at Proper

2016-08-26 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

In El Paso, we all know someone who prints t-shirts. Your brother. Your cousin. Your girlfriend’s boyfriend. That kid in

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Fixed Idea at the Lowbrow Palace

2016-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Are you trapped in a loveless engagement? Do you want to break up with your significant other, but don’t know

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“You messed up. You trusted us.”

2016-08-25 elrichiboy Media, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The media is asking us to remember that our taxes are going up because we approved all those tax intensive

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Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls on Friday

2016-08-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Black Joe Lewis is bringing his party to Tricky Falls Friday, and he wants you to come.

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Property Taxes are Like Global Warming

2016-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Our local media like to tell you how much a property tax increase is going to cost you. But your

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Viva Juarez, Cabrones. A Downtown Restaurant Guide.

2016-08-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

One of the best things about El Paso is Juarez. It’s more than a different city, or a different country.

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Blank Range with Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls

2016-08-23 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Blank Range opens for Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears on Friday, August 26, at Tricky Falls. Tickets are

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La Vero Speaks Out

2016-08-23 elrichiboy Commissioners Court 2 comments

County Judge Veronica Escobar addressed the salary increase issue with this letter posted via the Constant Contact website. In it

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There You Have It.

2016-08-22 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Media, Politics 6 comments

This weekend the El Paso Times told us what they thought about the County Commissioners Court giving themselves raises last

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Black Joe Lewis at Tricky Falls

2016-08-20 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Austin’s Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears play Friday at Tricky Falls. Tickets are $13 in advance.

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Progress, at last.

2016-08-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez One comment

There used to be the nicest neighborhood over there in Juarez. It was called the Mariscal for one of the

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I’m taking a mulligan.

2016-08-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Yesterday I dropped the ball. Occasional commenter Henry offered this in response to my post about the popular exodus from

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The Truth About the EPISD Bond Proposal

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is asking voters to approve a $669 million bond. (I bet it was $666

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Juan Mexicano Arrested in Chicago

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment

That’s what the Chicago Tribune says: Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a Addison man after Elgin Police,

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Things are heating up in Juarez.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

My favorite Juarez news source La Polaka reports that there have been 29 murders so far this month in Juarez,

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People also vote with their feet.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, School Districts 10 comments

According to this estimate provided by the City of El Paso, El Paso County population was 833,487 in 2014. For

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Manufacturing Consent

2016-08-18 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The EPISD School Board claims that recommending less than what the Bond Committee asked for would be “disrespecting” the committee.

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It’s Almost Good.

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

El Paso is beautiful. The mountains. The sky. My wife. (That’s not her in the mural.) And the art. Especially

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?

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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