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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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Johnny Cash – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

2022-09-25 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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EL PASO WATER PARKS LOST $1.3 MILLION IN 2021, TO LOSE $3.4 MILLION IN 2022

2022-09-24 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 12 comments

by Max Grossman Proposition 1 on the ballot of November 6, 2012 ballot authorized the issuance of $245,000,000 in general

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Neuromarketing: How Brands are Manipulating Your Brain

2022-09-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Dreams”

2022-09-23 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Questions Relocation Experts Ask Our City Manager

2022-09-22 elrichiboy City Council, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Getting back to this KFOX interview with City Manager Tommy Gonzalez: “We’ve been successful in bringing different types of big-name

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Ciudad Juárez: Haitians in Limbo

2022-09-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Juarez, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson With his wife and small child seated nearby, Noel mused about the family’s round-about journey to the

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Feliz Cumple, Tin Tan!

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment

Double Feature! La Marca Del Zorrillo and Soy Charro de Levita

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I Will Not Seek Endorsements

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Elections, Political Advertisement, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I’ve had a couple of groups reach out to me with questionnaires I could fill out to win their endorsements.

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What You’ll Get From the Arena

2022-09-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Best case scenario: Collateral development. Maybe other businesses will spring up around the arena. Like what? When they were promoting

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Foggy Mountain Quartet – “Are You Washed in the Blood”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make.”

2022-09-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Share Our Values

2022-09-16 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The City can’t stop spending your money. Here’s a story from KFOXtv.com titled ‘We haven’t given up on Great Wolf

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“The Predestination Effect”

2022-09-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Ballad of a Corrido, Part One

2022-09-15 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Gabriel Jara and Tom Threepersons’ Border Shootout. by Bob Chessey On the summer evening of Saturday, June 14, 1924, two

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“Arena” Meeting TODAY at 5:30

2022-09-15 elrichiboy City Management, Gensler, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Surprise! CBS4Local reports that the City is hosting a meeting regarding the arena at 5:30 today in the large conference

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“Woman on the Run”

2022-09-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Our Neighbors Committed Mass Murder, Here’s What We Did”

2022-09-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What I’ll Do If I’m Elected

2022-09-10 Rich Wright City Council, Culture, Economic Development, Elections, Political Advertisement 3 comments

El Paso is a great city. I never thought we needed to spend a billion dollars to fix it. There

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“The Last Theft”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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