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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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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Alison Krauss – Keep on the Sunny Side of Life

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Saturday Matinee – The Wall Street Conspiracy

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Friday Short – The Crush

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Gimme Some Water

2021-04-01 elrichiboy Climate Change, Slider 7 comments

El Paso is in a drought. I heard it first when the Archeology Museum announced they wouldn’t be holding a

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the Interrupters – She’s Kerosene

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Omega Mart Commercials

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Omega Mart is the Las Vegas outlet for Meow Wolf.

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The Killdares – Whiskey In the Jar

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The Water Parks Are Coming!

2021-03-30 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 5 comments

This just in, from KTSM: Newly constructed regional water park Camp Cohen is set to have its opening day by

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City of Dust – Courtland, Arizona

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And You Will Know Me By My Jail Traveling southwestward down the dusty Ghost Town Trail puts us in the

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Chris Isaak – Wicked Game

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Memorial Honors Victims of Imminent Dam Disaster

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Sunday Matinee – The Big Knife

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Ransomed Bluegrass – I Saw the Light

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Saturday Matinee – The Global Fight Over Water

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Knox By Night – Meth Smokin’ Woman

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Friday Short – Wellness Check

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People From “Up and Coming” Cities

2021-03-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Urban Planning, Video 4 comments
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The Hillbilly Moon Explosion – My Love For Evermore

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Joe T. Hodo – La mariguana, la Senadora y el OGT

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Billy Strings – Watch It Fall

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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?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers

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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