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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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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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Our Troubles are Over

2014-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Good news for those of you who were worried about El Paso’s economic development: The Borderplex Alliance is proposing a

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You Decide

2014-07-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the local rag, there’s a new lawsuit over police shooting an unarmed man. Here’s part

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That was then. This is now.

2014-07-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s pretend. Say you were a certain high-ranking city employee, and you made some controversial decisions in your official capacity,

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El Paso Vice: the Drug War Through a Gimlet Eye

2014-07-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a piece that originally appeared in Der Spiegel, and was reprinted on the ABC News website. The war on

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El Paso’s Chief Debt Enabler Resigns, Takes Job in “Private Sector”

2014-07-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The City’s Chief Financial Officer and debt enabler has tendered her resignation, according to this article in El Paso’s English

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The Case of the Missing Deputy City Manager

2014-07-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s El Paso Inc. has another chiaroscuro report from the ever so subtle Mr. David Crowder. The article lays

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Al Jazeera Says Americans Don’t Trust Media

2014-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to Al Jazeera, Americans trust in media is at an all time low. Faith in print media is down

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Vice.com on the Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Vice weighing in on the the case of Danny Saenz. The headline for the article is “El Paso Releases

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The Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see the horrific video of El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shooting handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz? The City

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Start With Day Lilies

2014-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you looking for an income opportunity in your retirement years? Are you afraid that you won’t be able to

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Corrections

2014-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

For literally years I’ve been ranting about Texas Municipal Code Chapter 334, the one that deals with sports venues. Most

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The Third Court of Appeals on Secret Emails

2014-06-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Here’s the latest on El Paso’s open records request (though it doesn’t deal specifically with El Paso’s case). Here’s a

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Jobs Outlook

2014-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

When the new City Manager takes over, will he replace the members of the City Administration who enabled all the

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Editorializing on the Times

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

The El Paso Times today editorialized on the need to hurry up and build the “signature downtown projects” authorized by

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Internal Affairs Boss Out at Border Patrol

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we covered, a little bit, the problems the Border Patrol was having with its use-of-force investigations. Today, the man

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John Oliver and the World Cup

2014-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Border Patrol Use of Force on NPR

2014-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

On Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep talks to Arizona Republic reporter Bob Ortega about that paper’s ongoing investigation into the use

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Falta de Agua

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario this week detailing the challenges some homes in Juarez are having with water in

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$55M Manufacturing Plant

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s lead story in the El Paso Inc. is about the SeaDoo company opening up a new $55 million

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Mushroom Management Revisited

2014-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s an interesting article from this week’s El Paso Inc. The story explains how El Pasoans will start drinking “purified”

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