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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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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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Now that’s a good looking man.

2015-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

According to the agenda for next Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the Mayor is reappointing Fire Chief Samuel Pena to the

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Tim Cook on the Importance of Learning Computer Coding

2015-12-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Imagine what we could do if we took all that money we’re throwing away on ballparks and arenas and devoted

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It’s Just Business

2015-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have heard of the workers at Juarez’ Lexmark plant getting fired for asking for a raise. Printer and

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So how did they vote?

2015-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

If you’re like me, you are mildly entertained by all the drama going on at City Hall, but you’re really

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Coding as a Core Class

2015-12-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

The Georgia State Board of Education has decided to allow high school students to include computer coding as a core

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Happy Birthday, Ol’ Blue Eyes

2015-12-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Frank Sinatra, December 12, 1915 — May 14, 1998

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Go Local: South Sun Rises

2015-12-11 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the first published literary effort from El Paso videographer Valentin Sandoval, and it’s pretty special. I’m no expert, but

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Skipping Along the Primrose Path

2015-12-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Do y’all read ElPasoSpeak.com? Old Brutus is a bulldog. I know he looks like a Rottweiler, but really he’s a

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The real story?

2015-12-10 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Given the nearly constant, egregious, dysfunctional, behavior of City Council and City Government, don’t you think that the recent righteous

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Who can you trust?

2015-12-10 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media One comment

The following paragraph appeared in the El Paso Times December 8, 2015 attempt to impose moral rectitude on City Hall,

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From the Horse’s Mouth

2015-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 3 comments

From an article in the El Paso Times, regarding the selection of Ross Fischer of Golber Hilgers, PLLC, to investigate

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Is that even legal?

2015-12-08 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Here’s a screen shot of the notice of the special City Council meeting yesterday. See where the meeting time is

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El Día de Nuestra Señora

2015-12-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Saturday is El Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. A multitude will meet in front of the cathedral in Juarez

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They must be around here somewhere.

2015-12-06 elrichiboy City Council, Media, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a little tidbit from an El Paso Times editorial: At a City Council discussion Monday about ethics laws, it

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The Ouija Speaks

2015-12-04 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

Why, you are probably asking yourself, would El Paso need a downtown arena? I mean we’ve got the Don Haskins

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Light at the end of the tunnel?

2015-12-03 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 3 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? On Tuesday, the City Council was supposed to take action

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We’re Too Nice

2015-12-02 elrichiboy Economic Development 2 comments

People in El Paso are nice. That’s why we put up with so much crap. We don’t want to hurt

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“Cast Down Your Bucket”

2015-12-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Before he mastered the B3, Booker T. Washington was an influential Black American. Here’s a paragraph from a speech he

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Four Things to be Thankful For

2015-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

1. The El Paso Times hasn’t called for your resignation. 2. You haven’t been linked to any political shenanigans that

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A Question, Dr. CFO, If You Please

2015-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

This article from The Atlantic’s City Lab, titled The Accounting Rules That Bankrupt Cities raises some interesting questions for El

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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?

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