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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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F*ck you, Pig

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This new study posits that humans arose as a chimpanzee/pig hybrid. Now it all makes sense.

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Country Justice

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police

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More on Developing Downtown

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to

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Some Earnest Questions About Downtown Development

2013-12-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are the citizens of El Paso supposed to keep pouring money into downtown until all the downtown real estate speculators

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Schisms in the War on Drugs

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the article from the Guardian detailing policy differences between U.N. member nations on future drug policy. The story claims

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More on Mexico’s Garitas

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s

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Thanksgiving Family Feud

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

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No More Internal Migration Checks

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

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Thanks, America, by William Burroughs

2013-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

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Where’s the Love?

2013-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

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Wikipedia and the Ballpark

2013-11-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

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100 Things

2013-11-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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Downtown Parking

2013-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

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American Democracy Unmasked

2013-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

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The Middle Class is Obsolete

2013-11-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

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More on Dwntwn

2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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The End of the Interwebs

2013-11-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

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