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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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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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Regarding the Lincoln Center

2014-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The city is making some half-hearted, too-little-too-late attempt to save Lincoln Center. I’m not surprised. Those nefarious powers that be

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Welcome to Amerika

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story about a DEA raid in Alpine, Texas, that should raise some serious concerns about the country we

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Coincidence?

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is sidelining City Manager Joyce Wilson related to the Open Records request now percolating through the Texas Court of Appeals?

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Question

2014-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

This week’s Question and Answer session in the El Paso Inc. is an interview with Patrick Schaefer, Executive Director of

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Devitalizing Downtown

2014-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Remember when Billy Abraham was the bad guy? He didn’t maintain all his downtown properties. “Demolition by neglect,” the pundits

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2014-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Where I went to college, I had to take a class in horse trading. And one of the lessons was

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El Paso: It’s Almost Good

2014-05-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, City Council will ask Joyce Wilson to stand out of the

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

2014-05-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Uncategorized 4 comments

Well, just like I predicted, the El Paso City Council has offered the job of City Manager to former Irving,

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