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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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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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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”

2022-04-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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”

2022-04-12 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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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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“Checkpoint”

2022-04-08 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Lina Ortega, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

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reddit.com/r/ElPaso

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

Did you know that there’s an El Paso sub-reddit? Here’s a post from reddit.com/r/ElPaso : Is it just me or

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Ahead of the Curve

2022-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

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We’re Fourth (From the Bottom)

2022-04-07 Rich Wright Slider, The Economy 2 comments

An alert reader just hipped me to this table from DQYDJ.com showing comparative rankings for metro areas in the U.S.

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Retrovision – Nothing’s For Sure but Debt and Taxes

2022-04-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

(This post originally ran on 10 March 2017.) The ever-vigilant Brutus over at El Paso Speak alerted me (and all

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Chris Farlowe – Out of Time

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Pedro Infante in El Mil Amores

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2022-04-05 Rich Wright ballpark, El Paso Times, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

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  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
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  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
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  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
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