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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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  • 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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30 Years With the Yakuza

2022-01-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Dealing With the Plague

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider, Unpopular Opinion 12 comments

My personal physician and bodyguard had this to say: We should just do away with masking and social distancing and

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Penny and Paul

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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La Trinchera

2022-01-05 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Snowflake Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t “Feel Comfortable”

2022-01-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? There won’t be any weather- or fire-protection for damaged buildings inside the fenced

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The Democrats’ Problem

2022-01-04 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

The midterms are right around the corner, and the Democrats have not kept a lot of Joe Biden’s campaign promises.

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Sunday Matinee – The Big Night

2022-01-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Alison Krauss – Down to the River to Pray

2022-01-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons

2022-01-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers – Pink Champagne

2021-12-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Desde ‘el corazón’ de Juárez van por el derecho a la cultura

2021-12-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Video Leave a comment
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Tom Waits – Hell Broke Luce

2021-12-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Redistricting – Why It Matters

2021-12-29 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Redistricting, Slider 3 comments

Did you know that the District 1 representative and the District 8 representative live (or at least are registered to

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Pedro Armendáriz in Rosauro Castro

2021-12-28 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Back of Library Smells Like Weed

2021-12-28 elrichiboy Video One comment
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Any Takers?

2021-12-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, sports One comment

I’m trying to get up a team to play Washington State in the Sun Bowl next Friday. If you’re down

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El Barrio Park: Attack of the Bureaucrats

2021-12-26 elrichiboy Ben Fyffe, City Management, Local Heroes, Slider, sports, Taxes 12 comments

Here’s a letter that Cruz Morales posted on Facebook: RE: Cease and Desist – EL BARRIO PARK Mr. Morales This

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Sunday Matinee – Assignment Paris

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Son House – John the Revelator

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Saturday Matinee – The Howlin’ Wolf Story

2021-12-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • 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
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Shopping South El Paso Street
  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

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