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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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“China vs. United States”

2023-07-22 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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CITY DEBT APPROACHING $3 BILLION!

2023-07-18 elrichiboy Debt, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

by Max Grossman According to page 79 of the FY 2023 Budget Book, our City owes $2,257,059,064, of which $851,565,991

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El Paso’s Population Soars to 700,698 In 2021* [Updated]

2023-07-17 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Liar Liar, population, Slider Leave a comment

by Rich Wright From Page 3 of the City’s El Paso Uptown+Downtown Citywide Market Analysis Appendix: From the fine print:

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CITY BUDGET TO INCREASE TO $1.3B FOR FY 2024, HERNANDEZ WANTS MORE DEBT

2023-07-16 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City

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“A Woman’s Vengeance”

2023-07-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Climate Change – Averting Catastrophe”

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DID A THIRD INDIVIDUAL USE HERNANDEZ’S GAS CARD?

2023-07-14 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, FOAC, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Max Grossman Rep. Cassandra Hernandez purchased 35% of all gas purchased by the City Council and Mayor in 2022,

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The Brady List

2023-07-13 Rich Wright Crime, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso Police Department announced the arrests of five of its officers in connection with three separate

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“The Man From Cairo”

2023-07-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Just Emerged in Antarctica Terrifies the Whole World”

2023-07-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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JORDAN AND HERNANDEZ ARE CONNECTED TO DEBORAH PAZ!

2023-07-06 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gassandrgate, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman Several days ago, a PAC called “Women’s Voices for Political Reform” proclaimed that on July 5 they

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Have You Lost Your Voice?

2023-07-04 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

Some of my best followers can’t comment on some of the posts. I don’t know why that is. Hackers? Extraterrestrials?

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“Nightmare”

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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2023-07-02 Rich Wright Art, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 06 June 2013. This post has been slightly edited. As an El Pasoan, I appreciate

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John Fogerty “110 in the Shade”

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City Settles Taser Death Lawsuit for $600,000

2023-06-28 Rich Wright Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Karla Nieman, Slider Leave a comment

Did I ever tell you that the El Paso Police Department is taser happy? Here’s more of the latest evidence,

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Rightsizing El Paso’s Government

2023-06-28 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 3 comments

by Rich Wright When you’re in a hole, stop digging. It’s time to acknowledge that the Borderplex Alliance’s plan for

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CITY SUED OVER TWO STREET PAVING CONTRACTS WORTH $34 MILLION

2023-06-27 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Erik Elken of KVIA aired an exclusive report last night revealing that ZTEX Construction, Inc. filed two

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“Black Angel”

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You Are Still Paying for the Great Wolf Lodge Fiasco

2023-06-24 Rick Bonart City Council, Economic Development, Elizabeth Gibson, Slider, Taxes, TIRZ 10, TIRZ 13 2 comments

by Rick Bonart While Council investigates trivial gas card infractions, millions of public dollars are being wasted. Left unchecked, these

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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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