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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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  • “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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Guatitas a la Española

2013-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got invited to a futbol club social gathering the other night.  Dinner was involved.  Chilenos eat late. Oh good,

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Valparaiso’s Staircase Culture

2013-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Don’t go up the stairs at night,” our landlady told me. “They’ll steal your camera.” But it was June. The

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Crazy Joe Muench

2013-07-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media One comment

Two recent columns by El Paso Times’ Joe Muench question the straw men opposing progress in El Paso. Here’s one,

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If you go to bed drunk in South America . . .

2013-07-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

the room spins in the opposite direction.

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How El Paso (and Juarez) Are Different Than Chicago

2013-07-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I was born in Chicago. I don’t remember it well. I was young at the time. There was a time,

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No good deed goes unpunished.

2013-07-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I bet Josh and Woody Hunt, and Paul Foster and Alejandra de la Vega weren’t expecting the negative backlash they

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Weather report

2013-07-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s raining in Valparaiso right now. A storm blew in from Antarctica, and the sea is angry. (I’ve never had

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Bamboozled in Thrall

2013-06-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

The most logical explanation for the illogical behavior of our immediate past City Council is that they completely believed the

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Bland El Paso

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have

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Bob Dylan on El Paso’s New Slogan

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cold-blooded killer, stalking the town Cop cars blinking, something bad going down Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood But there’s

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What’s the Secret?

2013-06-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of the decisions that have been made lately make me think that the decision makers aren’t putting all their

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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How Steve-O Lost the Election

2013-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Steve was clueless. I think that his lopsided loss in the general election caught him flatfooted. He surrounded

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Mr. Natural wants to know

2013-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In response to The Road to Economic Development, Mr. Natural asks Right on about promoting cultural and educational values in

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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

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