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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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Local Boy Makes Good

2023-12-11 elrichiboy News, Slider, Welcome to Monday Leave a comment

From the Washington, D.C, City Paper: You have to admire Christian Irabién’s persistence and patience. The 43-year-old Chihuahua-born, El Paso-raised

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Albuquerque Air Battles Rage: Politicians Nix Environmental Board, E Justice Regulation

2023-12-10 Kent Paterson Albuquerque, Slider, The Environment 6 comments

By Kent Paterson Promoting a tourism mystique, the marketers of Albuquerque, New Mexico, peddle images of clean skies, diverse culture

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Meta and EPEC

2023-12-06 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Electric Company, Slider 2 comments

From ElPasoTimes.com, in case you’ve been dozing: Meta Platforms Inc., the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp social media

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Today’s Dumpster Pic

2023-12-04 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Dumpsters, Ellen Smythe, Environmental Services Department 2 comments

When El Chuqueño talks, people listen. Or maybe not.

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Barrio Park Christmas Toy Giveaway.

2023-12-04 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve told you about Cruz Morales. He puts his heart and soul into Barrio Park, over there by the new

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Tortas de Cola de Pavo

2023-12-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso has Chico’s Tacos. Juarez has tortas de cola de pavo. Turkey tail sandwiches. Of course you can only

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Revelations About Government Censorship on Social Media

2023-12-01 elrichiboy Media, News, Slider 4 comments

This is story about news censorship, which surprisingly is not appearing in the media that are accused of news censorship.

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“Rio Grande Revisited: Backroads of Albuquerque”

2023-11-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a radio documentary from frequent El Chuqueño contributer Kent Paterson. Join journalist Kent Paterson for a trip back and

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Richard Burton in “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”

2023-11-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“How the World’s Smartest Criminals Were Caught By a Salami Sandwich”

2023-11-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Paso Has a Dumpster Problem

2023-11-21 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Ellen Smythe, Slider, The Environment 5 comments

I live by El Paso High. The official name of the subdivision is Alexander Heights, but no one calls it

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El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle

2023-11-19 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on

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Marlene Dietrich in “The Blue Angel”

2023-11-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water

2023-11-13 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elizabeth Triggs, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

From the dead tree edition of the El Paso Inc.: Two years after it was rezoned from farm/ranch land to

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Rita Hayworth in “Gilda”

2023-11-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Eating the Rich did for Japan”

2023-11-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Teflon Donna

2023-11-08 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 2 comments

You read that the effort to recall District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez failed to get the 4,000+ signatures it would

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Press Release for Effort to Recall Cassandra Hernandez

2023-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider One comment
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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

2023-11-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles”

2023-11-04 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

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  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
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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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