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  • The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

    2025-09-17 Kent Paterson

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

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  • El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

    2025-09-15 elrichiboy

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

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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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The 3 Kinds of Lies

2018-10-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider One comment

“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain allegedly said. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Economic analysis is a particular

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The Great Wolf Swindle

2018-10-28 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

The City must have stayed up late figuring out how to swindle the taxpayers with that new Great Wolf Lodge.

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Trolley Follies

2018-10-25 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 3 comments

No matter how you feel about the trolley conceptually, you have to admit that the execution has been disappointing. There

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Will The Cure Kill El Paso?

2018-10-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso suffers from Brain Drain. Since 2012 to 2017, the County of El Paso has seen a net domestic

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An Old Canard, Revived

2018-10-22 Rich Wright City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an entertaining post from District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez, hyping the benefits of the Children’s Museum. Which is curious,

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More Trolley News

2018-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 5 comments

Brutus from over there at ElPasoSpeak.com advises his readers that City Council is proposing a new ordinance restricting parking along

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Clunk Clunk

2018-10-17 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living 2 comments

In a report that will surprise no one, tripnet.org informs us that the roads in El Paso are some of

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”

2018-10-15 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind

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Sunday Matinee: The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

2018-10-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a classic cheesy gangster movie from 1996. With Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, and Keifer Sutherland. Watch this video on

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Downtown Development Won’t Lower Your Property Taxes

2018-10-10 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, TIRZs One comment

Downtown is covered by Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #5. You remember those TIRZs. Here’s what the Texas Comptroller says about

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Sunday Matinee: Johnny Cash in Five Minutes to Live

2018-10-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” And that’s pretty much the only reason to watch this 1961 rockabilly film noir. With some

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Sorry About That From the Dysfunction Faction

2018-10-07 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Hey, District 6 Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez says that some faction is trying to “cause dysfunction in City Government.” Well,

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Those Gratuitous TIRZs

2018-10-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

The City of El Paso is going out of its way to develop some land on the fringe of the

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound

2018-09-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1945 classic, starring Ingrid Berman and Gregory Peck. Hitchcock’s cameo comes about 43 minutes in. He emerges from

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-09-26 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

Those boys in blue cannot buy a break. No, I’m not talking about the Cowboys. Read this story from KVIA:

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City Council’s Abuse of Executive Session

2018-09-25 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Ethics Leave a comment

The El Paso City Council abuses Executive Session. A lot. There are reasons to use Executive Session. The Texas Government

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Breaking the Law

2018-09-24 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider One comment

On August 21, 2018, at their regular meeting, City Council discussed the Mexican American Cultural Center in Executive Session. Their

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Sunday Matinee: Beat the Devil

2018-09-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a great movie with a great pedigree. Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Peter Lorre. Robert Morley. Directed by

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Toro Torito Torote

2018-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight, Friday the 21st, in Juarez there’s another life-and-death barbaric spectacle taking place. Actually, several, probably. But I’m talking about

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