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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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A Perfect World: The Mennonite Colonies of Chihuahua

2016-12-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico One comment

Here’s a locally relevant documentary about a couple of Mennonite colonies just down the road from here in Chihuahua. I

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What’s the Rush?

2016-12-05 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

Why is City Council in such a hurry to build an arena? Well, City Council won’t tell us, so I

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El Guero de Acero on El Late Night

2016-12-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Navel Gazing 2 comments

For your viewing pleasure. Or not. People were a lot more open before everyone was packing a video recorder, and

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Is it brain drain or a diaspora?

2016-12-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Former El Pasoan Mark Mendel is a big player on a small wing of the world stage. From Torrent Freak:

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Hope Riot with Robert Holguin

2016-12-02 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

It’s a tribute. I think.

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Old Schooled

2016-12-02 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Election night, as I drove back to El Paso through the navy blue of the High Desert with stars from

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Mea Culpa

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Slider 5 comments

I shouldn’t put all the blame for city governance on bad intentions. I’m sure that almost everyone involved wants the

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George Carlin Talks About El Paso

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” With some extra optional propaganda at

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It’s All Good, But It’s Not OK(C)

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

There’s a lot of talk about how El Paso could be the next Oklahoma City, developing downtown through sports infrastructure.

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Spot the Liar

2016-11-30 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

From last week’s El Paso Inc.: [B]uilding the arena within 1,000 feet of the El Paso Convention Center would allow

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Tlacho XolitzcuintIi Centeotl Yacatecuhtli

2016-11-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

By Reesa Turner When I heard that a perfect storm of 3 of my absolute favorite things (BEER, TACOS, FREE)

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The Ice Man Isn’t Cometh, He’s Hereth

2016-11-30 elrichiboy Navel Gazing One comment

Here’s this crazy episode from Vice.com about this Dutchman who has mastered his autonomic nervous system to the extent that

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Julian Aguilar on the Juarez Violence

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Julian Aguilar is a brilliant journalist and photographer in Ciudad Juarez. He’s lived there long enough to know some stuff,

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The City wants to run the CRRMA. What could possibly go wrong?

2016-11-29 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The mayor and the City Council said Monday they will

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El Late Night with Special Guest Richard Wright

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Walking across the bridge, I wish I’d brought a scarf, except the holiday house guests were between me and the

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Kentucky Club Sanctioned for Discrimination Against Indigenous

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

Well, the Kentucky Club is in the news again, and not for anything good. LaPolaka (Noticias en Caliente)* reports that

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You must be rich, or you couldn’t owe so much money.

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Did you know that, despite having household incomes about twenty percent less than the rest of Texas, the City of

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Twice the Fools

2016-11-28 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I want to apologize to my children. Actually, on behalf of every American who’s voted in the last 100 years,

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Patience, patience

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Downtown Management District Executive Director Joe Gudenrath sees a very faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.

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Mow Glee

2016-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

[El Chuqueño would like to welcome our newest contributor GC Adams presenting this musical interlude.] by GC Adams Mary got

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