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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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  • 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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El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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The Class Cold War

2012-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people

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Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel

2012-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on

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The voters have spoken.

2012-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,

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The Irony of Irony

2012-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of

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Oops. Looks like I got it wrong again.

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Option #1 Upon further review, it seems that the City’s Ordinance 017850 authorized the election about the ballpark based on

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The State Law Regarding Public Private Projects

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

To tell you the truth, I am getting issue fatigue deciphering all the lies and half-truths that are being promulgated

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The State Law Regarding New Sports Venues

2012-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I spent the afternoon reading the Local Government Code, Title 10, Subtitle C, Chapter 334, “Sports and Community Venues.” It’s

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Baseball is dead

2012-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Americans are also losing interest in what was long called the national pastime. Baseball has steadily declined in favor, with

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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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