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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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  • “Root Cause”

    2025-08-16 elrichiboy
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The El Paso Times versus The El Paso Inc.

2014-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I confess I rarely read the print edition of the El Paso Times. Last week one came with the Wall

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Who Will Replace Jaime Esparza?

2014-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

With his recent highly public history of selective enforcement of the law, one can only conclude that our District Attorney

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But Some of Us are More Equal

2014-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A kid gets in a fist fight with an off-duty police officer, in which the officer falls down and hits

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Why There’s No Place Like El Paso

2014-07-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an incredible opportunity:

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Mmm, Yogurt

2014-07-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the El Paso Times reports that a yogurt shop is opening downtown: A combined TCBY frozen yogurt/Mrs. Fields cookies

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From Paris (or anywhere but El Paso) With Love

2014-07-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In a related note, Homegrown El Paso is starting a music festival at Ascarate Park. According to this story in

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Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?

2014-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I mean, we’re not like other towns. We have assets. We own real estate. The Public Service Board (that’s the

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Those Pesky Secret Emails

2014-07-29 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Politics Leave a comment

In order to understand the content of those secret emails that we’re never going to see, I consulted my trusty

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Our Troubles are Over

2014-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Good news for those of you who were worried about El Paso’s economic development: The Borderplex Alliance is proposing a

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You Decide

2014-07-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the local rag, there’s a new lawsuit over police shooting an unarmed man. Here’s part

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That was then. This is now.

2014-07-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s pretend. Say you were a certain high-ranking city employee, and you made some controversial decisions in your official capacity,

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El Paso Vice: the Drug War Through a Gimlet Eye

2014-07-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a piece that originally appeared in Der Spiegel, and was reprinted on the ABC News website. The war on

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El Paso’s Chief Debt Enabler Resigns, Takes Job in “Private Sector”

2014-07-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The City’s Chief Financial Officer and debt enabler has tendered her resignation, according to this article in El Paso’s English

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The Case of the Missing Deputy City Manager

2014-07-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s El Paso Inc. has another chiaroscuro report from the ever so subtle Mr. David Crowder. The article lays

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Al Jazeera Says Americans Don’t Trust Media

2014-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to Al Jazeera, Americans trust in media is at an all time low. Faith in print media is down

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Vice.com on the Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Vice weighing in on the the case of Danny Saenz. The headline for the article is “El Paso Releases

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The Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see the horrific video of El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shooting handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz? The City

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Start With Day Lilies

2014-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you looking for an income opportunity in your retirement years? Are you afraid that you won’t be able to

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Corrections

2014-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

For literally years I’ve been ranting about Texas Municipal Code Chapter 334, the one that deals with sports venues. Most

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The Third Court of Appeals on Secret Emails

2014-06-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Here’s the latest on El Paso’s open records request (though it doesn’t deal specifically with El Paso’s case). Here’s a

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