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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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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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  • “Mister 880”

    2025-08-17 elrichiboy
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Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage”

2024-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Crown to Dust – Downfall of America’s Largest Bank”

2024-01-27 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Planning for a Static State

2024-01-27 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Cost of Living, Slider, Urban Planning 6 comments

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, in 2012, El Paso’s population was 674,588. In 2022, our population was 677,456. Since

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Lon Chaney, Jr. in “The Big Chase”

2024-01-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The UFO Conclusion”

2024-01-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Pay Off”

2024-01-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Who Pays?”

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s an analysis of the progressivity and regressivity of tax systems in various states, i.e., who pays a greater proportion

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One of the Five Best Tequilas

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Forbes.com: To help simplify things, we turned to the top international spirit competitions to help narrow down the field

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Downtown Dumpsters

2024-01-10 elrichiboy Dumpsters Leave a comment

These overflowing dumpsters were on the street under the Plaza Hotel parking lot. If it can happen to Paul Foster,

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Bringing Home the Bacon

2024-01-10 Rich Wright Climate Change, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

With Representative Veronica Escobar, El Paso has something El Paso hasn’t had before: a Congressperson who is landing her district

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BOTA Call to Action

2024-01-08 Jerry Kurtyka Bridge of the Americas, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

by Jerry Kurtyka BOTA NEPA SCOPING PUBLIC MEETING On Wednesday December 12th the General Services Administration (GSA) hosted a public

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Proposition C

2024-01-04 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Climate Change, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Opportunity Costs, Slider 2 comments

From CBS4Local.com: El Paso’s City Council approved the agenda item to pay over a million dollars to form a Climate

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“Night Editor”

2023-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Dumpster Du Jour

2023-12-26 elrichiboy Dumpsters Leave a comment

The City doesn’t care.

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“The Unseen”

2023-12-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

A classic voiceover murder mystery with a screenplay partially written by Raymond Chandler.

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Paseños Say No More Commercial Trucks on the Free Bridge

2023-12-20 Kent Paterson Bridge of the Americas, Slider, The Environment, TxDOT One comment

By Kent Paterson Long known as the Sun City, perhaps El Paso will soon be monikered the Semi City, and

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Today’s Dumpster 2023-12-19

2023-12-19 elrichiboy Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Dumpsters, Ellen Smythe, Mario D'Agostino Leave a comment

And the hits keep coming.

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Yesterday’s Dumpster 2023-12-18

2023-12-19 elrichiboy Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Dumpsters, Ellen Smythe, Mario D'Agostino Leave a comment

This one was on the corner of California and Florence yesterday.

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That Whistleblower Lawsuit

2023-12-19 Rich Wright Edmundo "Mundo!" Calderon, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Whistleblower Lawsuit Leave a comment

‘member that City of El Paso Chief Internal Auditor Edmundo (Mundo!) Calderon filed that Whistleblower lawsuit against former City Manager

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City Auditor Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against the City of El Paso

2023-12-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Gassandrgate, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

The Grift That Keeps on Grifting From KVIA.com: El Paso Chief Internal Auditor Edmundo Calderon has filed a lawsuit against the

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