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  • Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

    2025-09-19 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the

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  • “The Eyes of Chihuahua”

    2025-09-18 Rich Wright

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

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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 Rich Wright

    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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About That Children’s Museum

2017-12-15 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

El Paso Community Foundation President Eric Pearson says the Children’s Museum is going to be an economic driver. From KVIA:

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How Do We Evaluate Our Economic Development Policy?

2017-12-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Short answer: We don’t. I mean, except by the bank accounts of our community’s wealthiest citizens. They’re not going to

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City of Dust: Montoya, New Mexico

2017-12-14 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Almost No Kicks If you drive east of last week’s featured town of Newkirk on old Route 66, at some

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Lucha Libre Last Sunday

2017-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

The lucha libre season at Arena Kalaka is closing out this Sunday. Arena Kalaka is over there on Melchor Ocampo,

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Big (Hearted) Al

2017-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube An El Paso legend passed this week. In the ‘80’s, no matter what kind of

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City of El Paso, Inc.

2017-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Slider 5 comments

Here’s a list of lobbyists registered with the City of El Paso. There are links to their lobbying activity during

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El Paso Then and Now

2017-12-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 2 comments

Perhaps they meant well. Maybe they were trying to seize the moment. Maybe they thought that the tide had turned,

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Sunday Matinee: The Knight Templar

2017-12-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a movie for the polyglots out there. Swedish, English, Arabic, and maybe a smattering of some other tongues. It’s

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Sunday Matinee: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

2017-12-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a thriller that has almost everything we like: Mexico, occasional violence, and a little Vikki Carr. Watch this video

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City of Dust: Newkirk, New Mexico

2017-12-08 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

Getting Less Kicks Newkirk, New Mexico is a bit of an enigma. It doesn’t show up in ghost town guides–probably

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The Crab Bucket Analogy Revisited

2017-12-08 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

See, there were all these crabs in a bucket. And the rich crabs said, “Hey, let’s make a better bucket.

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That Crab Pot Analogy

2017-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

Lately I’ve been hearing that crab pot analogy a lot. Paul Foster mentioned it in his TEDx talk, and Jim

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The Lying Liars at City Hall

2017-12-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

Maybe you read this in the El Paso Times: El Paso’s Hispanic, bilingual workforce was a major selling point for

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Se Fueron de Rancho El Paso

2017-12-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

City Government does what the rich folks want, and then tells the rest of us it’s good for us. It’s

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Disneyland, Chuco-style

2017-12-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, Trolley One comment

I almost feel sorry for those nice people at the City. They try so hard. But even with the best

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Champions League Today

2017-12-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans, here’s a gift for all of you who are encumbered by day jobs. Champions League is winnowing

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Fake News

2017-12-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

To hear him tell it, he’s a victim. From the El Paso Times story about the money the City has

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What a Bargain!

2017-12-03 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times about the money the City has spent fighting to put

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Sunday Matinee: Kill Me Again

2017-12-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a neo-noir thriller starring Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen, with Val’s wife-at-the-time Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. Watch this video on YouTube

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The New Upscale Coffee Joint on Avenida Juarez

2017-12-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

I can’t drink coffee after noon. Well, I can, but then I don’t sleep at night. I’ve got blood like

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  • Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development
  • “The Eyes of Chihuahua”
  • The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19
  • El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes
  • “The Scar” aka “Hollow Triumph”

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