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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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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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Cary Westin’s Lucrative Retirement

2022-07-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

You’ll remember that back in May, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin retired from his position as Deputy City Manager for the

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Trouble in ChucoTown

2022-07-07 Rich Wright City Management, Gensler, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

The trouble with City Government is that the City Manager thinks that his job is to protect and promote the

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“Middle of Nowhere: New Mexico’s Multi-Million Dollar Blunder”

2022-07-07 elrichiboy Heritage Tourism, Slider, Video 2 comments
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Economic Indicators

2022-07-06 Rich Wright Downtown, Downtown Management District, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports that the Fallas Department Store in DWNTWN is closing: One of Downtown El Paso’s largest

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I Love You Guys

2022-07-05 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

Or is it gueys? Thank you for reading El Chuqueño. I am blessed, as are we all. But just because

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“Why Roads ALWAYS Fill Up, No Matter How Much We Widen Them”

2022-07-04 elrichiboy Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 4 comments
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50 Years of “Women Make Movies”

2022-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From Ariel Daugherty: This year I am celebrating Women Make Movies’, Inc. 50th anniversary, In 1972 I was one of

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“The Lone Wolf in Mexico”

2022-07-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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7th Annual Books and Raspas Giveaway at Jalisco Cafe

2022-07-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

From Hector (via Rick Melendrez) at the Jalisco: Free Books & Raspa for the entire family! FREE American flags to

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Rent a Bullring

2022-07-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Are you looking for a place to host your next bullfight? The banner on the Alberto Balderas Plaza de Toros

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“The Day Police Dropped a Bomb on Philadelphia”

2022-07-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Theo”

2022-07-01 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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El Paso Chamber Names New CEO

2022-06-30 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce Leave a comment

Sometimes the tea leaves lie. From ElPasoInc.com: The El Paso Chamber has appointed Andrea Hutchins as the next chief executive of

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“La Ciudad Perdida”

2022-06-28 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Retrovision – The Economic Impact of Arenas: A Brief Survey

2022-06-28 elrichiboy Gensler, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 13 December 2021. The El Paso City Council recently approved the following motion: “To direct

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The New Head of the Chamber of Commerce?

2022-06-27 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce 2 comments

Sometimes you have to add the numbers. The El Paso Inc. this week announced that the El Paso Chamber of

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“Fear No More”

2022-06-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Courtney Patton – “Welcome Table”

2022-06-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Spies, informants and new enemies – Today’s intelligence agencies”

2022-06-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Guys Who Decide Everything That Happens”

2022-06-25 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

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