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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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Dee Margo is a Weak Mayor

2020-10-29 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan, Slider One comment

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s City Attorney Karla Nieman’s response to an ethics complaint against the mayor:

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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: Raise a Little Hell

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Leonard Cohen: Happens to the Heart

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The Suspense is Over

2020-10-26 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

First it was the mystery mailers, and teevee ads, urging voters to support their “leaders”. Then it was that email

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

2020-10-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Saturday Documentary: Kickboxing World Champion Challenges Senegalese Wrestlers

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This is more a travelogue than a martial arts documentary. Check it out.

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Friday Short: Alternative Math

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Community First Coalition: Does El Paso City Hall Represent you?

2020-10-23 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Sam Morgan, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich One comment
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Debbie Nathan on the Dark Money Campaign

2020-10-23 elrichiboy Elections, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso uber-journalist Debbie Nathan writes about the dark money campaign on Medium.com: Today, it’s dark, dark money time in

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Amy Winehouse: Tears Dry On Their Own

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Your Freudian’s Slipping

2020-10-21 elrichiboy Elections, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider 2 comments

Here’s Mayor Dee Margo talking about his regime: Under his regime? Pol Pot had a regime. Stalin had a regime.

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Marilyn Manson: The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles

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Retrovision: Amazon Is Coming

2020-10-20 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 July 2020. From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open

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Are the Elections Fixed?

2020-10-20 elrichiboy Elections, Slider 2 comments

Sometimes it feels like they are. We need exit polls. Those kids from Coronado High School were conducting exit polls

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Retrovision: City of El Paso #1 for Certificates of Obligation Debt in Texas

2020-10-19 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 February 2020. Woohoo! Yeah, the Miners suck, again, those poor dears. And people are

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Gogol Bordello: Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher)

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The Oligarchs are Trying to Steal This Election

2020-10-19 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Henry Rivera, Joyce Wilson, Media, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

First it was that dark money campaign to “Support Our Leaders”. Now it’s this email from Woody Hunt. From: Woody Hunt

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Sunday Matinee: And Then There Were None

2020-10-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Saturday Documentary: United States of Conspiracy

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Friday Short: Laws of the Universe

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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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  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
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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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