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  • Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

    2025-09-11 Rich Wright

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

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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

    2025-09-05 Kent Paterson

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

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  • “He Ran All the Way”

    2025-08-31 elrichiboy
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  • “BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

    2025-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Leave It to the D.A.

    2025-08-26 Rich Wright

    Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition but you have to look

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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

    This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One

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  • “The Glass Wall”

    2025-08-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

    2025-08-23 elrichiboy
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  • Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

    2025-08-23 Rich Wright

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

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  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

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

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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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Chime the F Off

2019-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From today’s print version of the El Paso Times: City staff said 2,200 El Pasoans participated in a community-wide survey

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Quality of Life

2019-07-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, How to Live in El Paso, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when

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Sunday Matinee: John Doe: Vigilante

2019-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a story about revenge, kind of like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. Those folks in Australia sure do talk funny.

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“Assessment Limits”

2019-07-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Sharp-eyed El Pasophiles will have noticed that El Paso came in both first and second place in homestead property tax

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WSJ On Tax Incentives: A Race to the Bottom

2019-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a story from last week’s Wall Street Journal about using tax incentives to lure businesses: Concerns have mounted in

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It’s All Tommy G

2019-07-02 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 10 comments

Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality

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“And the Winner Is . . .”

2019-06-27 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of

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The City’s Streetcar Fetish

2019-06-24 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Trolley 5 comments

The City is facing budget shortfalls while the trolley is bleeding money because of a lack of riders. The obvious

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Sunday Matinee: Wild Bill

2019-06-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s an award-winning story about family and sin and redemption, told with an Irish accent. Check it out.

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Quote du Jour: Henry James

2019-06-21 elrichiboy Art, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

“Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be

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Retrovision: The Economic Impact of a Downtown Baseball Stadium

2019-06-20 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 07 August 2012. Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including

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Retrovision: Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

2019-06-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Retrovision, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

This post originally appeared on October 3, 2017. They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When

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Be Like Aguascalientes

2019-06-18 elrichiboy Art, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Go read this cartoon that was featured in The Guardian. Of course, supporting a vibrant arts community would never work

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The Trouble With The Trouble With Term Limits

2019-06-18 elrichiboy City Council, Corrections, Elections, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Way back at the end of May, I made the argument that term limits restrict the electorate’s ability to retain

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Free Streetcar Rides!

2019-06-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 4 comments

Good news! If you are one of those people who usually takes the bus from UTEP to downtown, or vice

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Retrovision: Does El Paso Need Downtown Development?

2019-06-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This piece originally appeared on 13 August 2012. All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s

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The Downtown Historic District

2019-06-16 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Today, or tomorrow, or yesterday, depending on when you’re reading this, the El Paso County Commissioners Court will consider, or

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BUSINESS VS. BUSINESSES

2019-06-16 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Rising property taxes don’t help small businesses. And all these vanity projects aren’t making the pie any bigger. Where is

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Just Like Democracy. Except not.

2019-06-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Ethics, Slider 5 comments

Did you hear about the latest attempt by your favorite City Council to stifle any voice of dissent? From the

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Welcome to the Future

2019-06-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 2 comments

I’m in downtown Ensenada. Downtown Ensenada on a Monday night is like Mexican Vegas after the apocalypse. The streets are

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