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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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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“Pickup”

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

2022-10-16 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Coverup – Behind the Iran Contra Affair”

2022-10-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Dinner for few”

2022-10-14 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Those Folks at City Hall Think They’re Special

2022-10-07 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

The elected officials dress up, and look down at us from the dais, and once a week they might have

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Big Signs Available

2022-10-05 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider 2 comments

Hey, I’ve got some of these big (4′ x 8′) signs available. If you live in District 8, and have

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Juarez Loses a Defender of the People

2022-10-03 Vanessa Johnson History, Juarez, Slider One comment

by Vanessa Johnson Beto Dominguez Rodriguez passed away on September 16, 2022, at 4 p.m., surrounded by his loved ones,

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Rich Wright Fundraiser This Thursday

2022-10-03 Rich Wright Political Advertisement 4 comments
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“Dark Journey”

2022-10-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Billy Preston – “You Can’t Beat God Giving”

2022-10-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Einstein’s Brain”

2022-10-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The City’s New Plan

2022-10-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 6 comments

Here’s an interesting story from KVIA.com: This week the city has come out with a plan to clear up some

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THE OPERATING DEFICIT OF THE FOUR WATER PARKS IS $5.6 MILLION SO FAR!

2022-09-30 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Water Parks 3 comments

by Max Grossman I recently reported that the City’s four water parks lost $1,335,420 during the summer 2021 season and

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“Voice Over”

2022-09-30 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“En Nuevo Leon se baila la cumbia”

2022-09-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Ballad of a Corrido, Part Two

2022-09-28 Bob Chessey History, Slider 2 comments

By Bob Chessey Gabriel Jara and “El Contrabando de El Paso” On the night of August 7, 1924, a somber

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More Water Parks Boondoggle

2022-09-27 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks One comment

Max Grossman recently brought to light the uncomfortable fact that the water parks are losing millions of dollars every year.

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“Ship of Fools”

2022-09-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 4 comments
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Johnny Cash – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

2022-09-25 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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EL PASO WATER PARKS LOST $1.3 MILLION IN 2021, TO LOSE $3.4 MILLION IN 2022

2022-09-24 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 12 comments

by Max Grossman Proposition 1 on the ballot of November 6, 2012 ballot authorized the issuance of $245,000,000 in general

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