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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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Friday Short: the Big Break

2020-11-20 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Vandalizing the Star

2020-11-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Slider 7 comments

The El Paso Times reports that people have been vandalizing the star on the mountain. For 80 years, the Star

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The Joe T. Hodo Show

2020-11-19 elrichiboy It's a joke., Slider, Video Leave a comment

Here’s something maybe you haven’t seen. Or maybe you have. It first “aired” in 2016. Later episodes feature Mr. Hodo’s

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Die Antwoord: I Fink U Freeky

2020-11-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg

2020-11-17 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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A Public Apology to the El Paso Times

2020-11-17 elrichiboy Media 4 comments

I’ve ragged a lot on the El Paso Times (no pun intended). My animosity was chiefly rooted in their uncritical

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We Should Fire Them All

2020-11-17 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Jessica Herrera, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 14 comments

I’m angry. From KFOX14.com: Five buildings throughout El Paso are being refurbished to assist the county combat COVID-19. . .

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Cuba Feliz: Lagrimas Negras

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“Will You Support a Taxpayer Funded Soccer Stadium?”

2020-11-16 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

That’s the question we should be asking candidates this election cycle. In the next four years, City Council will probably

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Retrovision: The Effects of Corruption

2020-11-16 elrichiboy City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 March 2019. Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in

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Sunday Matinee: Shockproof

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Retrovision: Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2020. Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the

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Saturday Documentary: Secrets of the Tribe

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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Words and Their Meanings

2020-11-13 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Karla Nieman, Liar Liar, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against

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Friday Short: Among Us

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Based on the online role playing game.

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Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring

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Where’s Susie?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Slider, The "Progressives" 7 comments

From this week’s El Paso Inc.: The woman who has led El Paso’s PBS TV station for six years has

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Sleaford Mods: Second

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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Manu Chao: Clandestino

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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
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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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