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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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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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Sunday Matinee: The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

2019-12-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Bloodsuckers

2019-12-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Now in our “vibrant downtown!” From PopularResistance.org: Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no

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Friday Short: The Occupant

2019-12-06 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video Leave a comment
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What El Paso’s Stagnant Population Growth Means To You

2019-12-05 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, population, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

I guess you’ve heard the news. El Paso’s not growing. Our birthrate is falling. School enrollment is down. Those aren’t

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She Wants Revenge: Tear You Apart

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Nothing to See Here

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Did you hear about this in the media? This version is from the El Paso Times: The El Paso City

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El Hermano Mayor

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, News, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

This just in, from CNN: The Department of Homeland Security wants to be able to use facial-recognition technology to identify

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Battle of the Titans

2019-12-02 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Man, this Electric Company deal is turning out to be like an old B movie. Opposing the deal are some

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Bad News Day

2019-12-02 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

Gannett Company’s stock traded at a 52 week low today. Right now it’s trading at $6.33 a share, down almost

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Sunday Matinee: Dragon Eyes

2019-12-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The El Paso Police “Will Fucking Kill You”

2019-11-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

And why not? There’s no downside (for them) when an employee of the City of El Paso kills a resident.

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El Paso’s Impending Civil War

2019-11-28 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s an article I found on Salon.com, parts of which correspond to our situation in El Paso. The current issue

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Lucille Bogan: Shave ’em Dry

2019-11-27 elrichiboy Music, Video 3 comments

WARNING: DON’T PLAY THIS SONG AT WORK, OR IN THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN, OR YOUR IN-LAWS, OR CHURCH-GOING FOLK.

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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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