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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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  • “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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Max Grossman — “THE CASE FOR FIRING TOMMY GONZALEZ”

2023-02-24 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

by Max Grossman Tommy Gonzalez became City Manager of the City of El Paso on June 23, 2014. So what

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Economic Development : We’ve Been Doing It Wrong.

2023-02-19 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation hired the Perryman Group to study and propose some suggestions regarding Economic Development

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“How Liberty Dies: The Politics of Star Wars”

2023-02-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Fresh Guacamole by PES”

2023-02-17 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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More Blood From a Turnip

2023-02-15 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, Taxes One comment

You probably got a letter from El Paso Water last week. The letter announced a new fee that our municipally-owned

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The City’s “Slush Fund”

2023-02-15 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman If you pay a monthly water bill like I do, you will notice a tax levied by

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Economic Development?

2023-02-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Everybody’s talking about all the Economic Development taking place downtown. Here, for instance, is that nice lady who has taken

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A Cruel Joke

2023-02-14 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Mexico has come out with some new banknotes. The 500 peso note is blue. It has a picture of Benito

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New Chief, Same as the Old Chief

2023-02-13 Rich Wright City Management, El Paso Police Department, Karla Nieman, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City of El Paso has appointed an EPPD veteran as acting Police Chief. From the El Paso Times: City

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Robert Reich — “The Stadium Scam”

2023-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Robert Reich takes on the billionaires in this piece on his website. Ever notice how there never seems to be

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“The Crooked Way”

2023-02-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Problem With TIRZs

2023-02-10 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Part of the reason that property taxes are so high in the City of El Paso is because not everyone

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El Chuqueño Presents Almost Live for 2/8/23

2023-02-09 elrichiboy Almost Live!, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s the latest from the El Chuqueño podcast, Almost Live, with some talk about the AirBnB ordinance, and a brief

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This Is A Test

2023-02-07 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño 4 comments

I upgraded my email sender, and I’m hoping that now all y’all that have signed up for emails will get

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“People Do Bad Things”

2023-02-03 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Delta Bombers – “Hey You Know You Wanna’

2023-02-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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I’ve Got a Secret

2023-02-01 elrichiboy Almost Live!, Slider Leave a comment

It’s a podcast. You can tune into El Chuqueño presents Almost Live, wherever you get your podcasts, like Spotify, or

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“Has humanity passed its zenith?”

2023-01-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Sympathy for the Dealer”

2023-01-27 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Killing Kelly”

2023-01-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • 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

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