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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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  • “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 “Future of El Paso” Debacle

2024-05-16 Rich Wright Economic Development, Heather Wilson, Slider Leave a comment

If you only get your news from El Chuqueño, you missed this piece of news. From ElPasoMatters.com: The National Science

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More of What You Should Expect

2024-05-14 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, The Environment One comment

From the El Paso Times: Once again bucking the will of a chorus of El Paso residents, the El Paso

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“Cry Danger”

2024-05-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Dark Web | Black Market Trade”

2024-05-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What Did You Expect?

2024-05-09 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council took a timid step toward having developers and homebuilders foot

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How Owners of Professional Sports Teams Dodge Taxes

2024-05-03 Rich Wright ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s an interesting story from ProPublica.com about how the owners of professional sports teams escape income taxes: The IRS has

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Our Petulant and Entitled Ruling Class

2024-04-28 Rich Wright City Council, MountainStar Sports Group, Oscar Leeser, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a story maybe you didn’t see. From ElPasoTimes.com: [El Paso Mayor Oscar] Leeser related a recent encounter with someone

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“Split Second”

2024-04-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Economy of Tomorrow”

2024-04-27 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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In Defense of the Rio Bosque Wetlands

2024-04-25 Vanessa Johnson Cesar Blanco, Slider, The Environment, TxDOT 5 comments

by Vanessa Johnson The Chihuahua Desert is an ecological treasure; it is the largest and most biodiverse desert in the

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Humphrey Bogar in “Midnight”

2024-04-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Your Brain: Who’s in Control?”

2024-04-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Juárez Multimedia Art Show Connects Rivers, Borders and Healing

2024-04-19 Kent Paterson Art, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson If you get a chance, you might saunter over to Ciudad Juárez to see the Somatica Terreste

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Impact Fees, Developers, and Politics

2024-04-18 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Water, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 11 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso Water and the City of El Paso are discussing potential changes to impact fees, which homebuilders

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El Paso’s Rio Bosque Wetlands Park threatened by unchecked forces of development.

2024-04-17 Jon Rezendes Slider, The Environment, TxDOT Leave a comment

This post was originally published on April 10, 2024 by ricklobello on the ILoveParks WordPress blog. In just a few

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City of Dust: Mystery Photos

2024-04-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse I was sent two vintage photos from unidentified locations by someone that wants to know where their

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Iris Dement – “Let the Mystery Be”

2024-04-15 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest

2024-04-15 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa

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City of Dust: Cabezón, New Mexico

2024-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider 3 comments

by John Mulhouse Beneath the Giant’s Head If you’re tooling around the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, one feature

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The Arena Saga

2024-04-10 Rich Wright Arrogance, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Economic Development, Renard Johnson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

I am tired of writing about the ongoing swindle that local governments keep trying to pull on us. I’m talking

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