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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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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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“Why So Many Ancient Civilizations Collapsed at the Same Time”

2025-04-26 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The New Soccer Stadium

2025-04-26 Rich Wright MountainStar Sports Group, Slider One comment

From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de

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“Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

2025-04-24 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar

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A Border Story You Might Have Missed

2025-04-23 Kent Paterson Breaking News, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of

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About the Deck Park

2025-04-23 Rich Wright Deck Park, Renard Johnson, Slider, TxDOT 5 comments

by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have

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Elephant March

2025-04-22 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and

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Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

2025-04-21 Kent Paterson Culture, Music, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas,

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“Four Dead in 5 Seconds”

2025-04-19 elrichiboy History, Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2025-04-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include

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Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda Education, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and

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“Tight Spot”

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“Amazing Quest: Stories from New Mexico”

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Dolores Huerta: Still Inspiring the Fight for a New Society

2025-04-09 Kent Paterson New Mexico, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Sporting a black beret that nicely complemented her attire, Dolores Huerta looked ready for battle. The life-long

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Transparency, Chuco-style

2025-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dionne Mack, Slider Leave a comment

Can you believe that 6 of our 8 City Representatives voted against citizen oversight of bond expenditures? From Adam Powell

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“Bad for Each Other”

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“Battle for Tibet”

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A’s hire A’s

2025-03-28 elrichiboy Politics, Slider Leave a comment

B’s appoint C’s as cabinet members.

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Victor Mature & Anita Ekberg in “Pickup Alley”

2025-03-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Unacknowledged”

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Edward G. Robinson & Burt Lancaster in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”

2025-03-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

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