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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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Richard Conte in The Big Tip Off

2022-01-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Shock Doctrine

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Friday Short – Implant

2022-01-21 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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City of Dust – Twin Arrows, Arizona

2022-01-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

A couple of years ago I wrote about Two Guns, Arizona, an old Route 66 trading post with a history

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Stephen Colbert – Rich People. They’re Just Not Like Us.

2022-01-20 elrichiboy Video One comment
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The Bus Boys – Minimum Wage

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Luis Aguilar in El Muchacho Alegre

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Vox – “The Dark History of ‘Gasoline Baths’ at the Border”

2022-01-18 elrichiboy History, Local Heroes, Slider Leave a comment

Local legend Dr. David Romo hipped me and contributed to this disturbing history of El Paso.

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Economics, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

On January 1, New Mexico’s minimum wage went to $11.50 an hour. That’s right. A minimum wage job in Sunland

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“Washington, D.C., Has an Insider Trading Problem”

2022-01-17 elrichiboy Corruption, Ethics, Politics, Slider One comment

From NYMag.com: The central bankers running the U.S. Federal Reserve are the closest thing we have to gods of the

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Sunday Matinee – The File On Thelma Jordon

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Dolly Parton – I am a Seeker

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Is There a Lawyer In the House?

2022-01-12 elrichiboy City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

If City Council decided to fire City Manager Tommy Gonzalez for not doing his job, and he fought his termination

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COVID Testing

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider Leave a comment

Say you’ve got symptoms. Chills. Fever. Muscle aches. Are you going to get tested? The word on the street is

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Hemp Fights COVID

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Marijuana, Slider One comment

From OregonState.edu: Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the

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Tin Tan in El Rey del Barrio

2022-01-11 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Districting Commission Meets Jan 12

2022-01-11 elrichiboy Redistricting, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a gentle reminder that the City’s Districting Commission meets today, January 12, at 4:00 in Council Chambers in City

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James Hand – Over There That’s Frank

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Plot Twist – Duranguito Arena Back in Play

2022-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Remember that, way back on November 9, the El Paso City Council directed City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to put the

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Barrio Chamizal

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