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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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Media Censorship

2021-06-17 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Media, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2021-06-15 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Opportunity Costs, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

Sunday Matinee – Unconquered

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Johnny & June Carter Cash – The Old Rugged Cross

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Saturday Matinee – How Biology Beats Cheaters: A Lesson in Corporate Accountability

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Friday Short – We Know What You Did During Lockdown

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Prince – Cream

2021-06-10 elrichiboy Music One comment

La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2021-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Quarantine, Slider, What to Do 6 comments

There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus

Insatiable Greed

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Economics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Wealth and income inequality is a big problem. Remember Supply Side Economics? From Wikipedia: In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the

Joe T. Hodo – Fifis: ¡La Flandemia no existe!

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Sunday Matinee – The Furies

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Alan Jackson – In The Garden

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Saturday Matinee – Are We Ready For The Next Crisis?

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Friday Short – What In The World

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Alternatino – The Truth About Border Crossers

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More Good News From the Folks Running the City

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Good news, everybody. I know you’ve been worried about those investors from JP Morgan Chase. You know, the ones behind

Sunday Matinee – Soldier of Fortune

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Jerry Lee Lewis – Just a Closer Walk With Thee

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Saturday Matinee – Why the China Covid Lab-Leak Theory is Being Taken Seriously

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The Children’s Hospital Lawsuit

2021-05-26 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a story about the El Paso Children’s Hospital, headlined Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old’s Death –