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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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The City of Dust Books are Back!

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

BACK IN STOCK! The remainder of the reprint of “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” has

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The Petition to Change Elections

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Politics, Slider One comment

From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: Elections in El Paso could look much different if El Pasoans for Fair Elections is

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Tin Tan in “Simbad El Mareado”

2022-08-16 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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The Petition

2022-08-14 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, University Medical Center Leave a comment

You’ve probably heard about the petition circulating in opposition to the issuance of Certificates of Obligation for expansion of the

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Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter”

2022-08-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Larceny”

2022-08-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Fight for Water – Is Water the New Gold?”

2022-08-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“The House on the Cliff”

2022-08-12 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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A New Advertiser

2022-08-11 Rich Wright ballpark, Slider 2 comments

Good news, everybody. The ballpark has a new advertiser. That should help offset some of the expense that the City

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Do they have a long term plan?

2022-08-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Urban Planning One comment

I mean the richest people in El Paso. The people who got us into this mess. Do they have a

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Roger Corman’s “Swamp Women”

2022-08-10 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

2022-08-10 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider 4 comments

By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a

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“El Amor No Es Ciego”

2022-08-09 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Traffic Studies

2022-08-09 Rich Wright Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

“It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August

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Big Fibbers at City Hall Redux

2022-08-08 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Somehow I missed the point of City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ press release about the new budget. When Tommy Gonzalez was

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“The Dark Past”

2022-08-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Can I Give You a Yard Sign?

2022-08-06 elrichiboy Political Advertisement, Slider 4 comments

Do you live in, or near, District 8? Do you have a business in District 8? (The district boundaries recently

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“The Reality of Truth”

2022-08-06 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Big Fibbers at City Hall

2022-08-04 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

In a recent guest column at ElPasoTimes.com, Representatives Hernandez, Salcido, and Rodriguez wrote the following: The city of El Paso

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More Harder Times

2022-08-04 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Media, Slider One comment

From USAToday.com: Gannett, owner of USA TODAY and local news operations in 45 states, [including the El Paso Times] reported

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