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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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History Showcase this Saturday

2022-11-04 Rich Wright History, How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a local history showcase with El Paso history all-stars.

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“Creator”

2022-11-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Vote for Change

2022-11-03 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

It’s crunch time. We are down to the final countdown. Three days left for voting. Today, tomorrow, and Tuesday. We

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Venezuela on the Rio Grande

2022-10-31 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Migration, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Standing tall and stoic, Albert Silva gazed at the barbed wire topping the fence on the U.S.

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“Street of Chance”

2022-10-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Scott Miller – “Is There Room on the Cross?”

2022-10-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Salesman”

2022-10-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Female Empowerment”

2022-10-28 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Dave Marino on the Proposed Bonds

2022-10-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments
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“People From ‘Up and Coming’ Cities”

2022-10-23 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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“The Economy of Tomorrow”

2022-10-22 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Taxes & Tax Incentives

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, Taxes 10 comments

Taxes are killing the local economy. Taxes hurt small businesses two ways. First, our punitive tax rates take a big

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The City Manager’s Contract

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City Manager’s contract is ridiculous. $400+ k a year plus benefits that put him well north half a million

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Widening the Freeway/The Deck

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, TxDOT, Widening I-10 One comment

I am against widening the freeway, and subsequently building a deck over it. Widening the freeway to reduce traffic is

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The Arena

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, The Arena Leave a comment

Building a $180 miilion arena in Duranguito was a bad idea 10 years ago, and it’s a bad idea now,

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El Paso is Unique

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Water Parks 3 comments

El Paso is as culturally unique as New Orleans, or San Francisco, or Key West. There is no place in

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“Pickup”

2022-10-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Southern Raised – “What a Day That Will Be”

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“Coverup – Behind the Iran Contra Affair”

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“Dinner for few”

2022-10-14 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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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

  • 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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