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Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

2025-09-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and

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Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

2025-09-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over

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“The Pretender”

2025-09-21 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

2025-09-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Water, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale

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“The Eyes of Chihuahua”

2025-09-18 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will

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The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña

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El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

2025-09-15 Rich Wright Deck Park, Economic Development, El Paso Matters, Slider 2 comments

Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:

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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park One comment

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.

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“The Fat Man”

2025-09-07 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee One comment
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Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

2025-09-05 Kent Paterson Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest

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“He Ran All the Way”

2025-08-31 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

2025-08-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Leave It to the D.A.

2025-08-26 Rich Wright District Attorney, El Paso Police Department, James Montoya, Slider One comment

Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition

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Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2025-08-25 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of

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“The Glass Wall”

2025-08-24 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

2025-08-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

2025-08-23 Rich Wright Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam

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An Economic Forecast

2025-08-22 Rich Wright El Paso, Juarez, Slider, The Economy Leave a comment

Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la

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