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No Mas La Puntita

2025-05-26 Rich Wright City Council, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar 2 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council voted eight to zero to pass a resolution authorizing the submission of an application

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Cast Your Vote in a Different but Crucial “Election”

2024-10-21 Kent Paterson Bridge of the Americas, Slider, The Environment, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

By Kent Paterson Everyone’s eyes are on November 5. Still, democracy is far more than just casting votes for the

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Veronica Escobar’s Bacon

2024-07-30 Rich Wright Politics, Slider, Veronica Escobar 2 comments

Say what you like about El Paso’s U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar, but she’s bringing home the pork. From the El

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Pollution at the Bridge of the Americas

2024-01-29 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, International Relations, Mexico, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

Commercial traffic on the Bridge of the Americas is contributing a lot of pollution to the surrounding neighborhood, and there’s

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Bringing Home the Bacon

2024-01-10 Rich Wright Climate Change, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

With Representative Veronica Escobar, El Paso has something El Paso hasn’t had before: a Congressperson who is landing her district

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Bait and Switch

2023-09-19 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

by Rich Wright From KTSM.com: The federal government plans to spend up to $700 million on an expansion of the

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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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9 Years Ago

2022-03-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider, Veronica Escobar One comment

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar, Widening I-10 6 comments

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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