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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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Joe Pickett for Strong Mayor!?!

2023-08-17 Rich Wright City Management, Elections, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Did you see this piece on CBS4Local.com last week? [S]ince 2004, El Paso has had a “strong city manager system,”

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REP. HERNANDEZ MAINTAINS INNOCENCE AFTER REPRIMAND

2023-08-17 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider One comment

by Max Grossman Adam Powell of the El Paso Times just published an excellent report on Rep. Cassandra Hernandez’s refusal to

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CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO ACCEPT LEGAL AGREEMENT TO END ARENA LITIGATION!

2023-08-14 Max Grossman City Council, The Arena 5 comments

by Max Grossman I am pleased to report that after today’s three-hour executive session, the City Council voted 6-0 to

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Oliver Anthony – “Rich Men North of Richmond”

2023-08-14 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Retrovision: The City’s War on Small Business

2023-08-14 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

This post originally appeared on 7 December 2016. God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless.

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“Blackout”

2023-08-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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EL PASO BADLY NEEDS MORE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

2023-08-12 Max Grossman El Paso Matters, El Paso Times, Media, Slider, Taxes, Uncategorized One comment

by Max Grossman Houston, like most major cities, has journalists with the requisite skills for investigating complex financial matters and

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“How AI Attains Consciousness”

2023-08-12 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Rio Grande Revisited: A Crisis of Civilization

2023-08-07 Kent Paterson Climate Change, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

by Kent Paterson A one-hour audio documentary highlighting issues affecting the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Paso del Norte

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“Seven Days in May”

2023-08-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

El Paso is featured prominently in this 1964 movie about a military coup in the United States. In the movie,

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“Oppenheimer – Destroyer of Worlds”

2023-08-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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TOMMY GONZALEZ WAS EMPLOYED BY CITIES OF EL PASO AND DURANGO SIMULTANEOUSLY!

2023-08-05 Max Grossman FOAC, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

by Max Grossman August 3 at 9:34pm, City Reps. Kennedy, Annello, Molinar and Fierro—who all happen to serve on the

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“Our Man in Havana”

2023-07-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Rich Hall’s Red Menace”

2023-07-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Lincoln County, NM, Dismisses All Criminal Cases for Last 2 1/2 Years

2023-07-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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“8 Hours in Juarez”

2023-07-27 elrichiboy Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TIRZs*

2023-07-26 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich One comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. This post originally appeared on 23 May 2018. What is a Tax

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“On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant”

2023-07-25 elrichiboy Business, Culture, Slider 4 comments

by David Graeber From StrikeMagazine.org: In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have

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Tornillo Truck Crossing to Resume in August

2023-07-24 elrichiboy Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider One comment

From BorderReport.com: A border crossing built to spare urban areas in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, of heavy commercial

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“Loan Shark”

2023-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • 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

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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