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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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Moonlighting

2015-02-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was browsing the most interesting site on the internet, and I found this. Bryan Crowe is the City of

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Keeping it Real

2015-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a video from the Borderplex Alliance website, which asks “Can you still get someplace real in America?” Yeah, folklorico

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And then there’s this . . .

2015-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

From the Times: “[Billy] Abraham owns several local businesses and buildings, primarily in Downtown El Paso. He also promoted Wednesday’s

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The New Face of the Retail Drug Trade in Juarez

2015-02-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting special feature from El Diario about the retail drug trade in Juarez. They say the puchadores have

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The End is Near, but It’s All Good!

2015-02-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story to cheer you up. Things are getting improbably worse than you could imagine. Large sections of the

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Social Activist’s Body Found in Morelos

2015-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some people in Mexico think that the government had more culpability in the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa

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Mexico Offers Undocumented Americans Amnesty

2015-02-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For a limited time, U.S. citizens living in Mexico illegally can normalize their status, according to this story. The issue

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Mesilla Park State Representative Proposes Legalizing Pot

2015-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico State Representative Bill McCamley was discouraged but not dissuaded by

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Shadow Prisons: How the Government Built More Private Prisons and Then Arrested More People

2015-02-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story (that incidentally features nice photos of El Paso): A Fusion investigation found that without a single

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America’s Largest Street Gang: a video about law-enforcement

2015-02-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If you think we have it bad here in El Paso, where the police only occasionally murder a handcuffed prisoner,

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From Zero to $129,000 a Month in Four Months

2015-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According the Texas State Comptroller, the top five locations in El Paso for liquor sales in December were: Bar Fly

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Is Retaliation the EPPD’s Unofficial Policy?

2015-02-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Sociology Professor Alice Goffman recounts In interviews, Warrant Unit officers

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Stop the Presses! El Paso Times Publishes (almost) Critical Editorial!

2015-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

In an uncharacteristically critical editorial on Sunday, the El Paso Times noted the limits of El Paso’s recent unemployment report.

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How to Live in El Paso

2015-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Some people think we need to spend a half a billion dollars to make El Paso an attractive place to

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Is the Border Patrol Out of Control?

2015-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There was the incident last week where Border Patrol agents chased a man for thirty miles before they shot him

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About the Camino Real

2015-01-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Locals are the worst people to ask about hotels, because mostly locals don’t stay in local hotels. The Camino Real

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White King Puto

2015-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m thinking the branding company didn’t perform due diligence seeing how this product name translated into other cultural contexts. Or

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Deflate-gate Started in 2007

2015-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here is an extremely interesting analysis of the New England Patriots recent seasons, which seems to indicate that maybe the

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Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe

2015-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year. El Paso’s hotel occupancy

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“Don’t Fix City Budget With More PSB Fees”

2015-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

That’s the headline from a guest column in this week’s El Paso Inc. It was written by outgoing board member

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • 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
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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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