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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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El Paso Times’ Coverage of Irene Ramirez’ Retirement

2015-07-08 elrichiboy Media, Politics One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso’s English language daily today concerning the retirement of City Engineer Irene

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No, really.

2015-07-08 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

You must think I’m an unappreciative asshole. Some (many) people do. You know, the Borderplex Alliance is financed 100% by

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How to Live in El Paso: The Pink Store

2015-07-07 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

How long since you’ve been to the Pink Store in Palomas? If you’ve just moved to El Paso (Ha! Nobody’s

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Have we hit the bottom?

2015-07-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

According to the El Paso Inc.’s Book of Lists, eleven of the fourteen largest employers in El Paso feed at

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How to Live in El Paso: Korean Food

2015-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Do you ever go to those Korean restaurants? You should. Next to white people, Koreans are El Paso’s second largest

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How are we doing?

2015-07-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

A couple of tradesmen I know, top-notch remodel types, are hurting for work. Like if you call them, they’re at

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Our Excellent Adventure

2015-06-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized 5 comments

Those cats at the Borderplex Alliance suggest our region become known for Quality. Where should we start? Maybe we should

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Hooray for the Borderplex Alliance

2015-06-29 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this piece in the El Paso Inc., titled Carruthers: Why the region needs to work together former New Mexico

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So Many Questions

2015-06-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this editorial in the El Paso Times? It seems that El Paso’s unemployment rate is going down

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City Finances

2015-06-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this post on ElPasoSpeak, Brutus reveals the City’s dirty little secret: our bonds have balloon payments coming due in

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El Paso’s Brand Identity

2015-06-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The important part of the concept of Brand Identity isn’t brand, it’s identity. A city can’t be as fake as

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That Revolution You’ve Been Waiting for Isn’t Coming

2015-06-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s already here. McDonald’s is closing more restaurants than it’s opening this year. We’re on the verge of the planet’s

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Crazy Joe Muench and San Jacinto Plaza

2015-06-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In Sunday’s El Paso Times, Crazy Joe Meunch says he wants to know what’s going on with San Jacinto Plaza.

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More on the Police States of America

2015-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In New Hampshire, who’s slogan is “Live Free or Die,” it’s the police and their families who live free, and

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County Judge to Declare El Paso Drought Disaster Area

2015-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This from the El Paso Times: [County Judge Veronica] Escobar will move forward with a disaster declaration on Monday as

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The Police States of America

2015-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those hippy tree-huggers over at Amnesty International claim that all fifty U.S states fail to meet international standards on lethal

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Something to Feel Good About

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Life Lessons from Dusty Henson

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

From the El Paso Times:, in their story about the closing of El Paso Saddleblanket: “You don’t feel good about

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Richard Dayoub on the Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso Chamber of Commerce President Richard Dayoub expressed hope and reservations about the Borderplex Alliance’s new strategic plan, in

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NASA: The World is Running Out of Water

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

More good news on the potable water front, from NASA via the Washington Post. We’re using groundwater faster than we’re

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The People Speak!

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  • 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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