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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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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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Jumping on the Bandwagon

2019-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, population, Slider 2 comments

This week’s main story in the El Paso Inc. is titled El Paso’s Birthrate is Falling, by David Crowder. Here

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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Friday Short: Eclair

2019-11-22 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video 2 comments
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Sunday Matinee: 8 Assassins

2019-11-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jurisdictionary

2019-11-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

Horrors. It’s Sunday, and the Women’s Auxiliary is coming over, and you’re out of gin. The liquor stores are closed

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Eliza and the delusionals: Just Exist

2019-11-13 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment
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Breaking News: Heather Wilson Has a Dog

2019-11-12 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media, Slider 5 comments

This just in, from El Paso’s business journal: Heather Wilson, UTEP’s new president, is a dog person. We know that

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Friday Short: Plurality

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video One comment
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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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The Horse

2019-11-07 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

The Horse from -_- on Vimeo.

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Brain Drain, Jobs, and Quality of Life

2019-11-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

Which improves your quality of life more? A good paying job, or ballparks, water parks, and and arenas? Fiscal profligacy

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“A Streetcar Named Quagmire”

2019-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 2 comments

From the Wall Street Journal: St. Louis business leaders looking to boost tourism and development spent years bringing the Loop

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Les Louanges: Pitou

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Vote Now. Vote No.

2019-11-05 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections Leave a comment

If you didn’t vote in Early Voting, today is your last chance to cast you ballot. City Council wants you

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L’Trench

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench 8 comments

TxDOT, the Texas Department of Transportation, seems dead set on widening the freeway in downtown El Paso, and not without

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Claudia Ordaz Perez Wants to Raise Your Taxes (Even More)

2019-11-04 elrichiboy Claudia Ordaz Perez Leave a comment

By now you’ve heard that District 6 City Council Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez is running for the Texas Congressional seat

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The Dark Ages in El Paso

2019-11-03 elrichiboy Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Are you interested in a great job in El Paso? Get on with the City. In the old days, a

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Friday Short: The Candidate

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video 4 comments
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Mexico’s Dirty U.A.

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting piece from Insight Crime. A pilot study in Mexico is showing promising results for measuring the frequency and

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Woody Hunt talking About the Arena

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s Mr. Hunt in a February 19, 2018, El Paso Inc. article titled Woody Hunt: In his own words.: Q:

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The People Speak!

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  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • “The Second Woman”
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  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

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