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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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  • 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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The New Downtown Plan

2022-04-25 Rich Wright Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 10 comments

The El Paso Inc. reported this week that there’s a new plan for downtown El Paso. This month, the DMD,

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“Shakedown”

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“Opaque Worlds – The Struggle for Truth”

2022-04-23 Rich Wright Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Oh, the Hypocrisy

2022-04-23 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Here’s a story from KVIA.com: Several city representatives say they will direct City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to decrease the City

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“The Familiar”

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El Paso Electric’s Profits Rise 87.4%

2022-04-21 Rich Wright City Council, Cost of Living, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Electric’s profit increased 87.4% in 2021 to $146.2 million, a new financial report shows. . .

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Luis Aguilar in “Primero Soy Mexicano”

2022-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Doña Rosario: The Unfinished Legacy of a Fiery Mexican Mother and Activist  

2022-04-18 Kent Paterson Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson  A giant of a woman in Mexican political life, civil society and human rights advocacy passed away

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“The Crooked Web”

2022-04-17 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Willow Worship – Resurrection Medley

2022-04-17 elrichiboy Music One comment
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“Catherine the Great – Russia’s Greatest Empress”

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“Oasis”

2022-04-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Homeowners Carry the Burden

2022-04-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Here’s a couple of factoids I extracted from this El Paso Times article about rising property valuations: The overall market

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City Council to Vote on Districting

2022-04-14 Rich Wright City Council, Redistricting, Slider One comment

City Council will meet in a Special Session this afternoon with only one item on the agenda: Discussion and action

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Tin Tan in “La Tijera de Oro”

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Jaguars, Almonds, and Mary Jane

2022-04-11 Kent Paterson How to Live in El Paso, Marijuana, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Well, it’s finally come to pass. Denizens of the Land of Enchantment – and their neighbors –

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“Politicians Outperformed Hedge Funds in 2021!!”

2022-04-11 Rich Wright Video Leave a comment
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Gary Cooper in “The Naked Edge”

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Congratulations, Tommy G!

2022-04-09 Rich Wright Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Look at this ad in this week’s El Paso Inc.: Did you see who the ad’s apparent sponsors are? Who

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“The CIA’s Plot to Assassinate Julian Assange”

2022-04-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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