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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: Putin’s Palace

2021-01-30 elrichiboy Corruption, Saturday Documentary, World News Leave a comment
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Miles Davis – Elevator to the Gallows

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Senses Fail – Elevator to the Gallows

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Lobbyist Loophole?

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Lobbyists, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Or maybe the City Clerk is just not doing her job. Here’s Chapter 2.94 – REGULATION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES of

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Friday Short – David

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Fort Bliss Added to El Paso County’s Population

2021-01-28 elrichiboy population, Slider Leave a comment

Starting with the 10 year census in 2020, the Census Bureau will start counting the population of military bases as

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Miles Davis – So What

2021-01-27 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground

2021-01-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo vs. Los DREAMers

2021-01-26 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Ministry – Just One Fix

2021-01-25 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Deck is Coming

2021-01-25 elrichiboy Corruption, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, The Trench 10 comments

Here’s a message I received from TxDOT contractors via the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Association: As an interested party in the

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The United Nations Definition of Genocide

2021-01-24 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider 4 comments

From the UN.org website: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II In the present

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Sunday Matinee – The Young Savages

2021-01-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Teeter Totter Wall – Pro and Con

2021-01-23 elrichiboy Art, Immigration, Politics, Slider One comment

Did you read that the Teeter Totter Wall won an international design award? Here’s the skinny from NPR: An art

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Saturday Matinee – This Appalachian Music Man Lived a Beautiful Life

2021-01-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What a Bunch of Jerks

2021-01-23 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown Historic District, Economic Development, Heritage Tourism, Karla Nieman, Slider 6 comments

From KVIA: An El Paso attorney maintained Friday that plans to have a historic district downtown that includes the Duranguito

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Friday Short – Lughead

2021-01-22 elrichiboy Friday Short 2 comments
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La Molacha

2021-01-22 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider One comment

If you wanted to make a lot of money betting on El Paso’s future, vacant lots would be the way

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SKÁLD – Rún

2021-01-21 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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All the News That Fits an Agenda

2021-01-21 elrichiboy Breaking News, Ethics, Media, Slider 5 comments

Do you depend on the El Paso Times to keep you informed on local news? Or maybe you count on

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The People Speak!

  • 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
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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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