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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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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El Paso is Home to the Second Best Burrito in America

2014-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

The website fivethirtyeight.com claims that Delicious Mexican Eatery’s chile verde burrito is the second best burrito in American, being edged

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The Future of Journalism

2014-09-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Dead tree media have had a hard time competing with the internet. Newspapers thought that all they had to do

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Sensationalist Pandering to Base Emotions

2014-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Do you see this fight that took place before the UTEP-Texas Tech game? I lifted it from the KVIA website.

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Death A Waits

2014-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The word on the street is that squatters had been occupying the old Lerner building since the Gateway closed. Word

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Monorail! Monorail! Juarez Scratches the Itch

2014-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from the El Diario website. Juarez is thinking about putting in light rail to link San Agustin

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Guess What. The Developers Have Been Screwing Us.

2014-09-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s some brilliant insight from an informed observer who was sitting at the table when El Paso residential property owners

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The Long Walk Home

2014-09-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Last night I walked home from Ultimate. I had a ride lined up but it fell through. Everyone wanted to

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Is the Islamic State in Juarez?

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

This from the website JudicialWatch.org: Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning

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Clang Clang Clang

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Will people park their cars and take the trolley from downtown to UTEP? Currently there are four bus routes that

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‘topes Leaving ABQ for OKC

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Albuquerque Isotopes will end their affiliation with the Los Angeles Dodgers next season. The Major League club will move

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You Are All Just Characters in My Video Game

2014-08-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that’s either comforting or disturbing or both. Government scientists are investigating whether reality is as real as

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Leading Indicators

2014-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If the County of El Paso were a publicly held company, these two stories would give investors reason to short

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Mission Accomplished!

2014-08-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Well, the numbers are in, and the ballpark is a huge success. Attendance records have been broken, businesses are swarming

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More Tiny Houses for Homeless People

2014-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the latest. This one’s from Portland. Portland is preparing to endorse the construction of communities of tiny houses on

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A Closer Look at Austin’s Newest Housing Project

2014-08-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My interest was piqued by the tidbit of information about Austin’s newest project to provide housing to the chronically homeless.

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The Divided Future of El Paso

2014-08-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I was surprised to see many of El Paso’s first citizens at the recent meeting to discuss the potential move

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Our Budget Deficit

2014-08-18 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

By now you’ve heard that El Paso is facing a $3.5 million deficit, and City Council will probably raise property

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

2014-08-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Friday I went to a ballgame. You remember the ballpark. “El Paso citizens approved $500 million in “Quality of Life”

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Stick It in Your Smug Pocket

2014-08-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Sometimes something so good happens, I want to tell everybody. But then I feel sorry for everyone who isn’t me.

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An Open Letter to the Man Behind the Curtain

2014-08-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Re Downtown Development: You’re doing it wrong (Read more.)

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