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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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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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Joe T. Hodo: Minas…¡Sí! Ruinas…¡No!

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 2

2020-12-03 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 6 comments

by Kent Paterson This is Part 2 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here. Days of

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Their Present is Our Future

2020-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Education, Hot Hits, Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Across the river from UTEP, Colonia Felipe Angeles is poor. And it’s not even the poorest neighborhood in Juarez. Colonia

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The Breeders: Cannonball

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Dark Money

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Elections, Ethics, Slider, The "Progressives" 4 comments

Many people were upset by that anonymous non-political political mailer that went out before the general election. But I suspect

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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1

2020-11-30 Kent Paterson Hot Hits, Local Heroes, Music, Slider 9 comments

By Kent Paterson He was the King of Mesa Street, the main drag that winds up and down El Paso’s

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Sunday Matinee: Borderline

2020-11-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Our Dirty Little Secret

2020-11-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Media, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

This post originally ran on 30 December 2018. Imma let you in on a little secret. In El Paso, we

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Saturday Matinee: Operation Odessa

2020-11-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Intersection

2020-11-27 elrichiboy Friday Short One comment
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Bruce Springsteen: The River

2020-11-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Modern Lovers: Roadrunner

2020-11-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo y FRENA unidos contra AMLO

2020-11-26 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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“New Mexico Passes $330 million coronavirus relief bill”

2020-11-25 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, News, Slider 2 comments

Allocates Big Bucks to Help Businesses Struggling from the Pandemic From CBSNews.com: New Mexico lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bipartisan

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The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: Poor Until Payday

2020-11-25 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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How to Live in El Paso: Bosque del Apache

2020-11-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, What to Do 3 comments

Travel, these days, is next to impossible. Public transportation is Russian roulette. Leaving El Paso in the throes of pandemia

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The City’s Hidden Tax Increase

2020-11-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Library, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

The City made a big deal out of not raising the tax rate this year, despite losing revenue due to

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JAWNY: Sabotage

2020-11-23 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Thanksgiving, or Not

2020-11-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

Back when God was just outgrowing the training wheels on his celestial bicycle, I used to have a regular writing

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Where Has the Money Gone?

2020-11-23 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Slider 2 comments

As of this morning, El Paso has recorded 81,511 positive tests for the Coronavirus, and 862 Covid-19 deaths. On May

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