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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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Sunday Matinee: Bridge of Spies

2017-10-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2015 instant classic, Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Judge Meachum’s Decision

2017-10-08 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena One comment

On October 4, the Honorable Amy Clark Meachum of the 250th Judicial District Court in Travis County, Texas, ruled on

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What If Guns Aren’t the Problem?

2017-10-07 elrichiboy National Policy, World News 7 comments

What if our recent spate of mass violence is just a symptom of our country’s bigger issues? Like putting people

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Saturday Special Feature: Bad Frank

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment

Here’s a disturbing movie about messing with the wrong guy. Watch this video on YouTube The movie gets off to

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Hope & Anchor’s Birthday Party is Today!

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Corrections, How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I hope you went on Tuesday. But the real party is today. Sorry. I guess I need to learn to

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Dirty John in the L.A. Times

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Media, World News Leave a comment

Here’s a nice piece of lurid journalism from the Los Angeles Times, a six part series called Dirty John: Their

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City of Dust: Hanover, New Mexico

2017-10-06 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

Zinc Town Just three miles southeast of Fierro, New Mexico, the town featured a few weeks ago, is Hanover. Hanover

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A Horror Story

2017-10-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share this true life horror story. The City of El Paso’s

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Welcome to Rancho El Paso

2017-10-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,

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I’ve Got a Chile Problem

2017-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Two years ago I planted chile pequin. I bought the dried chiles at the grocery store, crushed the pods, and

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“Women Aren’t Nags. We’re Just Fed Up.”

2017-10-04 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives One comment

My wife told me to post this story. I don’t know why. “What bothers me the most about having any

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Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

2017-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 13 comments

They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When El Paso blew up, say from somewhere around

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Dunga Din

2017-10-02 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube The other day our Smartest Dog In the World diagnosed Taylor with strep throat. I

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It’s Time for Plan B

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life

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Sunday Matinee: Confessions of a Samurai

2017-10-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Russian-Japanese movie about a yakuza gangster who becomes an orthodox priest and moves to Russia to escape his

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Gringolandia

2017-09-28 elrichiboy Video 5 comments

Here’s a YouTube series you obviously haven’t heard about. It’s called Gringolandia. Netflix picked it up. Maybe you’ve heard of

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I Want a Salad, Not a Soup

2017-09-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it 2 comments

Our city leaders are trying to give El Paso all the soul of an airport food court. That’s bad, but

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Straight Talk About the Arena

2017-09-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

There’s a lot of noise about the arena. Duranguito. Gringolandia. Contempt of court. Arrogant and dismissive. Mysterious phone surveys. Voter

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There’s One Born Every Minute

2017-09-27 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Downtown’s renovation is going swimmingly! Here’s a story in the El Paso Inc. about the Abdou Building. The historic Abdou

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  • Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development
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  • The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19
  • El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes
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