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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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$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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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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At Large in Europe by Lank Dresser

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s day eight of a ten-day tour. I just woke up in a renovated suite in a castle in County

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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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