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

2021-05-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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 –

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions, Part 2

2021-05-26 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Law Enforcement, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The "Progressives" Leave a comment

Truth, Justice, and the American Way. These days, asking if truth and justice are the American way is a legitimate

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions

2021-05-25 Rich Wright Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab

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Remember Jane Shang?

2021-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider 2 comments

After Deputy City Manager Jane Shang left El Paso City Government with eleven months paid leave that made her eligible

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Border Boo Boos

2021-05-24 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Migration 2 comments

By Kent Paterson We’ve withstood some pretty fierce winds in the region lately. But so far, fortunately, no wind has

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Sunday Matinee – The Tattered Dress

2021-05-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Mark O’connor, et al – Life’s Railway To Heaven

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Saturday Matinee – Manufacturing Ignorance

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Alternatino – The World’s Worst Translator

2021-05-18 elrichiboy alternatino Leave a comment
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There She Is

2021-05-17 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Slider 5 comments

From the Whispers column is this week’s El Paso Inc.: Look for an announcement this week from the El Paso

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Gerrymander El Paso

2021-05-16 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Redistricting, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a link to the City of El Paso’s map of the City’s Representative districts. It’s a hash. One can

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Sunday Matinee – Hunt the Man Down

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Billy Joe Shaver – Jesus Christ, What A Man

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Saturday Matinee – Who Is Bill Gates?

2021-05-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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Friday Short – Two Dosas

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Alternatino – Respect Your MOther

2021-05-13 elrichiboy alternatino, Video Leave a comment
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The Specials – Enjoy Yourself

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A Cure for Covid?

2021-05-11 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Public Health, Slider Leave a comment

Living on the edge of three states and two countries makes you appreciate the arbitrary vagaries of legislative jurisdictions. In

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Kris Kristofferson – Why Me Lord

2021-05-09 elrichiboy Music 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
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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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