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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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Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various