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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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Neuromarketing: How Brands are Manipulating Your Brain

2022-09-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Dreams”

2022-09-23 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Questions Relocation Experts Ask Our City Manager

2022-09-22 elrichiboy City Council, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Getting back to this KFOX interview with City Manager Tommy Gonzalez: “We’ve been successful in bringing different types of big-name

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Ciudad Juárez: Haitians in Limbo

2022-09-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Juarez, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson With his wife and small child seated nearby, Noel mused about the family’s round-about journey to the

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Feliz Cumple, Tin Tan!

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment

Double Feature! La Marca Del Zorrillo and Soy Charro de Levita

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I Will Not Seek Endorsements

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Elections, Political Advertisement, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I’ve had a couple of groups reach out to me with questionnaires I could fill out to win their endorsements.

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What You’ll Get From the Arena

2022-09-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Best case scenario: Collateral development. Maybe other businesses will spring up around the arena. Like what? When they were promoting

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Foggy Mountain Quartet – “Are You Washed in the Blood”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make.”

2022-09-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Share Our Values

2022-09-16 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The City can’t stop spending your money. Here’s a story from KFOXtv.com titled ‘We haven’t given up on Great Wolf

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“The Predestination Effect”

2022-09-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Ballad of a Corrido, Part One

2022-09-15 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Gabriel Jara and Tom Threepersons’ Border Shootout. by Bob Chessey On the summer evening of Saturday, June 14, 1924, two

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“Arena” Meeting TODAY at 5:30

2022-09-15 elrichiboy City Management, Gensler, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Surprise! CBS4Local reports that the City is hosting a meeting regarding the arena at 5:30 today in the large conference

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“Woman on the Run”

2022-09-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Our Neighbors Committed Mass Murder, Here’s What We Did”

2022-09-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What I’ll Do If I’m Elected

2022-09-10 Rich Wright City Council, Culture, Economic Development, Elections, Political Advertisement 3 comments

El Paso is a great city. I never thought we needed to spend a billion dollars to fix it. There

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“The Last Theft”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chile?”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Sapiens.org: Psychology researchers, on the other hand, have posited that some people’s preference for capsaicin-containing foods is related to

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Rock and Roll Never Forgets

2022-09-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Cissy Lizarraga, It's All Good, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Max Grossman reports that District 8 Representative Cissy Lizarraga is appointing Steffen Poessiger to the City’s Historic Landmark Commission. You

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