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“This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

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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”

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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 Velvet Underground – Jesus

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Saturday Matinee – Cults, Taboos, and Twisted Faith

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Question Mark & The Mysterian – 96 Tears

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Friday Short – They’re Made Out Of Meat

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The Filthy Lucre is Really Filthy

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I don’t like to use my cards. My debit cards represent money in the bank, literally. With my sporadic income,

Jalan Crossland – Moonshiner

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Retrovision: We’re on the Wrong Side of History

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This post originally appeared on 9 February 2016. The biggest major at UTEP is Criminal Justice. Because law enforcement and

About That Brownfields Assessment

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Downtown, Ethics, Slider, The Environment 3 comments

Yesterday I walked that downtown area that the Downtown Management District is offering up for brownfield assessment. The tract is

Credit Where Credit Is Due

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Corrections, Education, Elections, Media, Sam Rodriguez, Self Censorship, Slider One comment

This week I published a post critical of the El Paso Times coverage of an EPISD District 3 candidate. You

A Challenger for La Vero?

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Elections, National Policy, Politics, Slider One comment

This story from TheHill.com: Daniel Marans, a HuffPost reporter who covers the Democratic Party, on Thursday discussed his recent story on

Brand Management Chuco-Style

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Downtown Historic District, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Welcome to my Pity Party The Downtown Management District thinks it’s a good idea to have parts of downtown El

Sarah Vaughn – Whatever Lola Wants

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Alternatino – Welcome to America

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Sunday Matinee – Across the Bridge

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Roxy Music – Psalm

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Saturday Matinee – The Anthropocene: The Age of Mankind

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The El Paso Times’ Reporting on Another CREEED EPISD Candidate

2021-04-23 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media, Politics, Self Censorship, Slider 2 comments

This morning’s El Paso Times featured this report: An El Paso school board candidate confirmed she does not believe masks are effective

Friday Short – The Interview

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Steely Dan – King of the World

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Some Antics

2021-04-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s the City of El Paso’s statement regarding City Council’s decision to issued $93 million of debt not approved by