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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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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

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The New DA

2021-07-19 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Slider, Yvonne Rosales 3 comments

The office of District Attorney for the County of El Paso is the most powerful elected office in El Paso.

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Sunday Matinee – The 13th Letter

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Ry Cooder – Jesus On The Mainline

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Saturday Matinee – Cities on Speed: Bogota Change / The Inspiring Story Antanas Mockus

2021-07-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People.”

2021-07-16 elrichiboy TEDx Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Gold

2021-07-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Sonny Liston – Boxing’s Most Intimidating and Unwanted Champion”

2021-07-15 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Tommy G’s $400K

2021-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

KTSM.com (and others) report that City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is set to make almost $400,000 a year. El Paso City

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More Lies From People Who Should Know Better

2021-07-14 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Times, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks One comment

I read the El Paso Times so you won’t have to, and I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern. Every time the

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Climate Town – How the Auto Industry Carjacked the American Dream

2021-07-14 elrichiboy Climate Change, Climate Town Leave a comment
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Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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El Paso Children’s Hospital’s Identity Crisis

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

David Crowder, in last week’s El Paso Inc., wrote: Children’s, a nonprofit organization under El Paso County’s University Medical Center,

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“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Veritasium, Video Leave a comment
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Chime the Eff Up

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 3 comments

Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was called Chime In!, and it was available on

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Sunday Matinee – The Great Man

2021-07-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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The Spirit of Memphis Quartet – The Atomic Telephone

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Saturday Matinee – Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action

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Neil LeVang – Ghost Riders in the Sky

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Friday Short – My Loyal Audience

2021-07-09 elrichiboy black comedy, Friday Short Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “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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