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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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  • 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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Cultivate from the El Paso Community Foundation

2017-01-18 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

From the EPCF: Please save the date for our next Cultivate Forum on local food systems and sustainability. Thursday, January

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Adios, Call Centers

2017-01-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from the New Yorker (via Molly Malloy’s Frontera List) that should throw a shadow on the graves

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Now We Want to be San Diego

2017-01-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Not too long ago, the local machine said we should be like Oklahoma City, developing downtown through sports infrastructure. Now

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Eat Chile, Live Longer

2017-01-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

That title means just what it says. From LiveScience.com: Firing up the flavors in your food may help you live

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Economic Impact

2017-01-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy. A downtown arena, or the value of the

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City of El Paso: Values

2017-01-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

According to the Employee Handbook for the City of El Paso, the city’s values are: Integrity Respect Excellence Accountability People

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Crowder on the Arena

2017-01-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This week David Crowder unpacks the arena rebate, and things aren’t what the City told us. From an article titled

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Private Letter Rulings from the Comptroller

2017-01-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

If you want to know if your project qualifies for some arcane tax credit, you ask the Texas Comptroller for

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The Joker in the Deck

2017-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Who wins if we build an arena? Obviously whichever firm is selected to build it. (Maybe we can just give

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#Highland Park Episode 2

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the second episode from #Highland Park, that web series about gentrification in El Lay. #HighlandPark – Episode 2: Basketball

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Brujeria at Tricky Falls on Sunday

2017-01-13 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I am not a fan of heavy metal. I don’t like the headbanging. I don’t like the distorted vocals. I

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3 Cheap Bars

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

Over the last two years, the peso has lost about a third of its value. Yesterday it was trading at

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Let’s be reasonable.

2017-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

I don’t really blame the local multi-millionaires for buying City Council. I blame City Council for letting them. Money gives

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The Empire Strikes Back!

2017-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

That really harshes my mellow.

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#Highland Park

2017-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the pilot for a series out of El Lay about Chicanos in a neighborhood called Highland Park. Which brings

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An Arena? Really?

2017-01-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The

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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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