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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 Woman in the Hall

2022-07-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Johnny Cash – “I Saw the Light”

2022-07-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Harvest of the Poor: The Illegal Kidney Market

2022-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Defending the Big River

2022-07-28 Kent Paterson El Paso Water, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

by Kent Paterson Every river searches for the seaEvery life runs its own destinyCanyons white and wild stretches calm and

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Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides Now”

2022-07-26 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in “Arch of Triumph”

2022-07-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Il Divo – “Amazing Grace”

2022-07-24 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Launch Party

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Political Advertisement 10 comments

I am having the official Rich Wright for District 8 campaign launch party next Thursday, July 28, at Hope &

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“The Playboy King of Thailand”

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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$315,394.54 in Campaign Donations

2022-07-22 elrichiboy Elections, Politics Leave a comment

That’s how much Joe Pickett has in his campaign coffer for his run against incumbent Isabel Salcido for her seat

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Hermanos Gutiérrez – “El Bueno y El Malo”

2022-07-20 elrichiboy Music 2 comments

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“The Turning Point”

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Mercy Worship – Psalm 47 (Shout to God)

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“Yemen’s Dirty War”

2022-07-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2022-07-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 3 comments

Because the City won’t stop spending money. While we’re catching our breath (this is, after all, an election year) the

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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 2”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Explaining the Pandemic, Video Leave a comment
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“Spare Key”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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You Know Who Knows Coups

2022-07-13 elrichiboy National Policy One comment

From Reuters.com: John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said

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What Gives?

2022-07-13 Rich Wright Cost of Living, How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Sunday I went to Cloudcroft. The high temperature was 72. The low was 58. You should try it. Nowhere on

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“El Pecado de Ser Pobre”

2022-07-12 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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