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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”

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“White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

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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”

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“Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

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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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“Towards an American Union”

2022-06-07 Vanessa Johnson Immigration, Slider 7 comments

by Vanessa Johnson From Frank News: In the spirit of the European Union and specifically the Schengen Agreement, I propose

Place Your Bets

2022-06-07 elrichiboy Oscar Leeser, Peter Svarzbein, Slider 3 comments

District 1 Representative Peter Svarzbein filed a Code of Conduct complaint against Mayor Oscar Leeser today, according to this story

Climate Town – Who Broke Gas Prices?

2022-06-06 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment

How Jack Welch Ruined the World

2022-06-05 elrichiboy Business Leave a comment

From NYTimes.com: When Jack Welch died on March 1, 2020, tributes poured in for the longtime chief executive of General

Fritz Lang’s “The Blue Gardenia”

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“Police on Trial”

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“Red String of Fate”

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Evaluating Our Priorities

2022-06-02 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

They are coming out of the woodwork (and maybe from under rocks) to weigh in on Tommy Gonzalez’ future. From

Luis Aguilar and Jorge Negrete in “Tal Para Cual”

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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Like El Paso

2022-05-30 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Recently, Tommy Gonzalez applied for a job in Frisco, Texas, despite making more than $400,000 a year here. If he

Gary Cooper in “Cloak and Dagger”

2022-05-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

McKinney Sisters – “Nothing But the Blood”

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“Smog and Mirrors – The Secret Ways the Oil Industry Brainwashes You”

2022-05-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment

Willy McGee – “Do You Feel Good”

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People Don’t Like Tommy Gonzalez

2022-05-27 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

At least the taxpayers don’t like him. He’s been here since 2014, and I haven’t met anyone who tells me

Now That’s a Clean River

2022-05-26 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider 6 comments

Good news, everybody. From a May 6, 2022, story on ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Water completed cleanup on the Rio Grande this

Los Lobos with Cafe Tacvba – “La Venganza de los Pelados”

2022-05-25 elrichiboy Music One comment

Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

2022-05-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Media, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend

“A Street With No Name”

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Kris Kristofferson and Friends – “Why Me Lord”

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