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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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The Spirit of Memphis Quartet – The Atomic Telephone

2021-07-11 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action

2021-07-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Neil LeVang – Ghost Riders in the Sky

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Friday Short – My Loyal Audience

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Tan and Sober Gentlemen – Rabbit in a Log

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Alternatino – Latin Pop Star, White Audience

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The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economics, Inequality, Slider, The Economy, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a sobering piece I found on Medium.com: For years, banks and ultra-elites (bankrolled by years of money-printing, corporate socialism,

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The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change

2021-07-06 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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You Are Paying the Highest Residential Property Tax Rate in the United States

2021-07-06 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Today the El Paso City Council is voting to issue another $96 million in Certificates of Obligation. Certificates of Obligation

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Clifton Hicks – Washington Blues

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Ongoing Problems With El Paso Children’s Hospital

2021-07-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc.: Troubles may be mounting for El Paso Children’s Hospital, which saw its

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Happy Independence Day, Comrade

2021-07-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. Today is the day we celebrate our nation’s freedoms. The United States

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Billy Joe Shaver – You Just Can’t Beat Jesus Christ

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Friday Short – The Neighbor

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El Paso One of the Most Affordable Cities For Home Buyers

2021-06-28 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Did you miss this story from KTSM.com? The housing market has been booming this year, but the price of real

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What’s Wrong With El Paso

2021-06-27 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

One time a guy called me up. I took a meeting with him at the Mexican Cottage. He was a

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Sunday Matinee – Autumn Leaves

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Where Were the Popo?

2021-06-21 elrichiboy Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Did you read about those three alleged hoodlums who were arrested a couple of weeks ago for a fight in

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Sunday Matinee – Million Dollar Weekend

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A Southern Gospel Revival: Courtney Patton – Take Your Shoes Off Moses

2021-06-20 elrichiboy Music One comment
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