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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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  • 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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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

2022-04-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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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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The Naked Emperor

2022-04-05 Rich Wright Deck Park, Liar Liar, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 3 comments

Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty

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The Big Caper

2022-04-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sydney Philharmonia – Handel’s Hallelujah! Chorus

2022-04-03 elrichiboy Music One comment
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City Settles for $1.2 Million

2022-04-02 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

From ElPasoMatters.com: The El Paso City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit that

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The Last Conquistador

2022-04-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Emerging Front

2022-04-01 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Commissioners Court, Elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider Leave a comment

We are at war. No, I’m not talking about the Ukraine. I’m talking about the undeclared class war that MountainStar

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Garden Report

2022-03-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

I left my chiles outside this winter. Most of them. I put four in our little greenhouse, just in case

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The Ongoing War

2022-03-31 Rich Wright Slider, Uncategorized 4 comments

At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, City Staff wanted to renege on a promise the City made to El Pasoans

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Circle the Wagons

2022-03-28 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Did I ever mention that the El Paso City Government, the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports have declared war

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Trevor Howard in Golden Salamander (1950)

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Sidney Poitier – Amen

2022-03-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Dublin Whiskey Flood

2022-03-26 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Cesar Chavez Day at Lincoln Park

2022-03-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment
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Adios, David Jerome

2022-03-25 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: David Jerome, who has been the El Paso Chamber’s chief executive officer for just over four years,

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Capitalism In Action

2022-03-25 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Migration, Slider One comment

Walking across the Santa Fe Street bridge in the old days, like pre-pandemic, sometimes you’d have to stop to let

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

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