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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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Don’t Blame Bob

2016-01-09 elrichiboy Media, Politics Leave a comment

Lots of people blame El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore for a perceived slant to the coverage in our English

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Mildly Interesting

2016-01-07 elrichiboy Juarez, Politics Leave a comment

This is the new sculpture they’ve erected in Juarez. It replaces the sculpture of an angel that some people thought

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Idle Speculation

2015-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 3 comments

Do you suppose the local heavyweights turned sour on City Manager Tommy Gonzalez when they discovered that he would award

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A Present from Our Friends at City Hall

2015-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The agenda for the December 7 Special Meeting of the City Council included this item: Discussion and action that the

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FYI: Christmas Hours

2015-12-23 elrichiboy Go Local Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club closes at 8 on Christmas Eve, but resumes its regular hours for Christmas, 11 in the morning

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Hot Potato

2015-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that political considerations caused the ballpark bonds to be issued later than expected, and the delay cost

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Spoiler Alert

2015-12-20 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

In today’s El Paso Inc., there’s a story about an improper redaction by somebody in the office of our omniscient

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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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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
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  • 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
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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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