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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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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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Sunday Matinee: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here

2020-05-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube

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Retrovision: Who Represents El Paso?

2020-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Retrovision, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

This article originally appeared on 03 August 2015. If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City

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Ry Cooder: He’ll Have to Go

2020-05-08 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Tightening the Belt?

2020-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider 10 comments

In what world does cutting pay by five percent for the highest paid City staffers make sense? Tommy G is

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Debunking “Plandemic”

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The Harsh Future of El Paso

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Here’s a great read from Medium.com titled The Harsh Future of American Cities: On the nation’s current trajectory, one of

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The Big Pharma Covid 19 Conspiracy

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine 4 comments
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My Lucky Day

2020-05-06 elrichiboy It's All Good, Just Kidding. Leave a comment

If I didn’t occasionally check my Spam box, I might have missed this email: Congratulation My name is Warren E.

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Viral Load

2020-05-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Some viruses are so strong, and they reproduce so rapidly in the human body, that just a little dose of

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Paul Foster Needs a Hobby

2020-05-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 17 comments

Paul Foster inserted himself into the news cycle this week, with this email he sent to all the players on

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Sunday Matinee: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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Saturday Documentary: Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans

2020-05-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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City of Dust: Colfax, New Mexico

2020-05-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Days Too Late Originally known as Vermejo Junction, Colfax was established in 1869 and took its name from Schuyler Colfax,

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Heaping Disrespect on Disrespect

2020-05-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Slider 5 comments

From the El Paso Times: Eastridge-Mid-Valley city Rep. Henry Rivera denied he was referring to a resident as a “f—ing idiot”

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The City Wants to Give MountainStar a Soccer Stadium

2020-04-29 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 10 comments

At yesterday’s City Council meeting, your Representatives voted 5-2 to support TxDOT’s plan to widen the freeway downtown. You won’t

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Power Cruise

2020-04-28 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

Right now, West Texas Intermediate is going for $14.16 a barrel. A year ago, it was almost $62. So why

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What About Open El Paso?

2020-04-28 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider 8 comments

I’m a little curious about the motivations of the Open El Paso advocates. Do their home lives suck? Maybe they

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The Lies They Tell Us

2020-04-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to indefinitely postpone the proposed arena in Duranguito. Let’s

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World Party: Ship of Fools

2020-04-27 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

El Chuqueño Lately

  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup
  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
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