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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 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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Putin Envies Obama

2013-12-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Vladimir Putin gave his annual press conference yesterday. Among all the answers about Russian civil rights was this quote: “I

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The Saudis, George W. Bush, and 9/11

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Relatives of the victims of 9/11 are clamoring for 28 censored pages of the official report which allegedly link the

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The 10 Most Corrupt in Mexico, According to Forbes

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this article in Forbes Magazine, the ten most corrupt people in Mexico includes four former state governors who

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You could be next: Non-violent Protesters Charged Under Anti-Terrorism Law

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on FireDogLake.com, two non-violent protesters of the Keystone XL Pipeline were arrested under an anti-terrorism law

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The Medical Examiner Called it Homicide

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Part 2 of the Arizona Republic’s reporting on the public impunity of Border Protection Agents. It covers the killing

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Why Weren’t the Bankers Held Accountable?

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story by a United States District Judge postulating on why no bank executives were tried for what appears

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Nothing is Beyond the Reach of Our Government Snoops

2013-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

. . . and they brag about it. (read the whole story at the Vigilant Citizen.)

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That Must Be Rough, Dear

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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JFK’s Revolution

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Border Patrol Lacks Accountability

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a report for the Arizona Republic detailing the investigation and disciplinary policies of the Border Patrol in cases where

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Apocalypse, New Jersey

2013-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s a piece in the new Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi, about the Iraquization of Camden, New Jersey. “They let

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Zimmerman’s Chick Prefers the Attention

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story from the Associated Press, George Zimmerman won’t face charges for domestic violence after his girlfriend decided

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Two Americas by David Simon, the Creator of the Wire

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Via Facebook and Dangerous Minds and the Guardian: That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that

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A Strategic Plan for Downtown Development

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s how you hyper-vitalize downtown El Paso, and develop its reputation as the coolest city in the Southwest: Buy the

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The World is a Hologram

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article on Nature.com claims that scientists are closer to proving that the world as we know it is a

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25 Foot Shoulders

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I told her there was only one standard for evaluating our relationship. The swamp coolers don’t work when it’s a

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Microsoft: U.S. Gov’t = Hackers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a piece in which computer giant Microsoft likens the United States government to accomplished, dedicated hackers. The problem with

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a parasitical fungus that takes control of ants and persuades them to self-destruct. Kind of

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Ahead of the curve

2013-12-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It was less than three weeks ago that El Chuqueño advocated a basic minimum income for all Americans, and now

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My TEDx El Paso Talk

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For your amusement and edification:

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