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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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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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Playing the Burque Blues

2021-05-08 Kent Paterson Music Leave a comment

by Kent Paterson Don’t miss these radio shows: On KUNM 89.9 FM Albuquerque Livestream: www.kunm.org Saturday, May 8,  7 pm

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Saturday Matinee – Bringing Down a Dictator

2021-05-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Most Successful One Night Stand Ever

2021-05-07 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Muse

2021-05-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Descanse en Paz, El Recreo

2021-05-07 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Local Heroes, Mexico, Slider 8 comments

El Recreo closed. El Recreo opened in 1921. This year we should be celebrating its centennial. But El Recreo is

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Junior Brown – Highway Patrol

2021-05-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Decline of Six Sigma

2021-05-05 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

From Quartz (qz.com) via Pocket: Six Sigma, at its core, is a system for eliminating defects in manufacturing. The name

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3 2 of 4 CREEED Candidates lose EPISD Bids

2021-05-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Three out of the four candidates receiving support from the Kids First PAC, which is supported by members of the

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Canal Surfing in the LV

2021-05-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo – Joe Quiero Violencia!

2021-05-05 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Brother Elsey – Fast Train

2021-05-04 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Groundhog Day

2021-05-04 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media 2 comments

Here’s the front page of the El Paso Times for the last couple of days. It’s like deja vu all

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City of Dust – Gleeson, Arizona

2021-05-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Copper, Turquoise, and Moonshine We’ve reached our last stop on the Cochise County Ghost Town Trail: Gleeson, Arizona. When the

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Sturgill Simpson – Could You Love Me One More Time

2021-05-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems – Thoughts and Prayers

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David Dorado Romo in The Atlantic

2021-05-03 elrichiboy Local Heroes, Migration One comment

Local historian David Dorado Romo is prominently featured in this month’s Atlantic Magazine, in a story titled America Never Wanted

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Alternatino – When You’re Latinx But You Can’t Dance

2021-05-03 elrichiboy alternatino Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Tiger Bay

2021-05-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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