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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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Violent Femmes – Jesus Walking on the Water

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Saturday Matinee – Forest Man

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Friday Short – The Clue

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Mexican Pot Is Getting Harder to Sell

2021-04-16 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Marijuana 8 comments

From the AP, via KTSM.com: BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (AP) — For the first time that María can remember, half of her

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The Auteurs – New French Girlfriend

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Social Distortion – Story of My Life

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Ft. Bliss NCO Convicted of Multiple Rapes

2021-04-14 elrichiboy Fort Bliss One comment

From the ArmyTimes.com: Staff Sgt. Randall S. Hughes got off with a slap on the wrist after he raped the

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FloraFEST this Weekend

2021-04-14 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens is hosting their FloraFEST this Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 4pm, there

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The EPISD – CREEED Controversy

2021-04-14 Rich Wright Education, Inequality, School Districts, Slider 3 comments

Charter schools aren’t the problem. This story from KTSM.com: El Paso businessmen and board members of a nonprofit supporting the

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Belen, NM to El Paso, TX – Riding the BNSF El Paso Sub

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Johnny Cash – Hurt

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Sunday Matinee – Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times

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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – This Little Light of Mine

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Saturday Matinee – Is Meritocracy a Myth?

2021-04-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary 2 comments
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Friday Short – A Night in the Show

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Elect Brawlers

2021-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Traditionally, in El Paso, we elect nice guys. They’re politicians. Polite is practically in the name. There’s nothing wrong with

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A Decline in Democracy

2021-04-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Inequality, Politics One comment

Here’s a piece from America’s Quarterly that documents the deterioration of democracy in the Americas, including in the USA. Globally

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Joe T. Hodo – Fundación Joe T. Ayuda: Si lo vales…

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How Governments Cheat You On Property Taxes

2021-04-04 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s an interesting story from the Gray Lady: Homeowners have long complained about inequitable assessments, and past studies have documented

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case

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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
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
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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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