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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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Sunday Matinee – Tight Spot

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Chris Rodrigues & the Spoon Lady – Angels in Heaven

2021-08-22 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War

2021-08-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Room 88

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Veratasium – Why Gravity is NOT a Force

2021-08-18 elrichiboy Veritasium Leave a comment
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Vice News – This Is What Winning Looks Like

2021-08-16 elrichiboy Slider, World News One comment

Here’s a Vice News video from 2013 that deals with the current political crisis in Afghanistan. Do you reckon the

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Climate Town – Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain

2021-08-16 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Carl Jackson and Val Storey – Little Mountain Church

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Saturday Matinee – In the Shadow of 9/11

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You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program

2021-08-14 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Insight Crime profiling “the most important newer criminal actors in Mexico.” La Línea began life as

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Friday Short – Hyperuranios

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The Count is Out

2021-08-13 elrichiboy population, Slider 4 comments

The census data for the County of El Paso has been released, and it’s screwy. In the data headed Population

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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2021-08-13 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

El Paso has the highest residential property tax rates in the country. Our elected officials used to say that was

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Election Rumors

2021-08-11 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Believe it or not, election season is right around the corner. Lots of local offices are up for grabs in

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Drive By Truckers – Gravity’s Gone

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“We Must Not Go Back to Normal”

2021-08-09 elrichiboy Economics, Inequality, Perspectives Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Suddenly

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Sturgill Simpson – All Around You

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David Cross – Why American Sucks at Everything

2021-08-07 elrichiboy Video 3 comments
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The People Speak!

  • Jerry K on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • 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?

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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