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  • “The Eyes of Chihuahua”

    2025-09-18 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will soon be looking over our

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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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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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Jobs Outlook

2014-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

When the new City Manager takes over, will he replace the members of the City Administration who enabled all the

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Editorializing on the Times

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

The El Paso Times today editorialized on the need to hurry up and build the “signature downtown projects” authorized by

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Internal Affairs Boss Out at Border Patrol

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we covered, a little bit, the problems the Border Patrol was having with its use-of-force investigations. Today, the man

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John Oliver and the World Cup

2014-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Border Patrol Use of Force on NPR

2014-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

On Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep talks to Arizona Republic reporter Bob Ortega about that paper’s ongoing investigation into the use

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Falta de Agua

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario this week detailing the challenges some homes in Juarez are having with water in

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$55M Manufacturing Plant

2014-06-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s lead story in the El Paso Inc. is about the SeaDoo company opening up a new $55 million

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Mushroom Management Revisited

2014-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s an interesting article from this week’s El Paso Inc. The story explains how El Pasoans will start drinking “purified”

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Regarding the Lincoln Center

2014-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The city is making some half-hearted, too-little-too-late attempt to save Lincoln Center. I’m not surprised. Those nefarious powers that be

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Welcome to Amerika

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story about a DEA raid in Alpine, Texas, that should raise some serious concerns about the country we

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Coincidence?

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is sidelining City Manager Joyce Wilson related to the Open Records request now percolating through the Texas Court of Appeals?

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Question

2014-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

This week’s Question and Answer session in the El Paso Inc. is an interview with Patrick Schaefer, Executive Director of

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Devitalizing Downtown

2014-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Remember when Billy Abraham was the bad guy? He didn’t maintain all his downtown properties. “Demolition by neglect,” the pundits

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