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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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Dee Margo in His Own Words

2020-04-11 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

From the May 29, 2017, El Paso Inc.: [Mayoral candidate Dee Margo] says he’ll take what’s broken at City Hall

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Friday Short: The Beacon

2020-04-10 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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Watching Our Wasteline

2020-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

The trolley’s not coming back. Right? The City will break it out for special events, like Chalk the Block. Maybe

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At Least They’re Honest About It

2020-04-09 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

From the ElPasoMatters.org About Us page: Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and

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Mmm, Salsa!

2020-04-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

I know you know how to make salsa, because there’s no wrong way to make salsa. Chiles, tomatoes, tomatillos, onion,

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Will Tommy G Self-Quarantine?

2020-04-03 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Did you see the new directives for dealing with COVID-19? Especially this one? Except for Healthcare Operations in Section 5(c),

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We Should Fire Tommy Gonzalez

2020-04-02 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

He might be a nice guy. Maybe. He’s been here five years, and I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of

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Mingo Saldivar: Rueda de Fuego

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee: American Hot wax

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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I Think I’ve Got the Coronavirus

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Slider 3 comments

On February 29th, I shook hands with someone who, unbeknownst to me, had just returned from Milan. A couple of

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Saturday Matinee: D.O.A.

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Friday Matinee: Charlton Heston and Sofia Loren in El Cid

2020-03-27 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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About That Gran Logia del Lobo

2020-03-26 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support

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Israel is Snooping on Israeli Cellphones

2020-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From the Guardian: Israel’s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have been infected with

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Sam Morgan is Full of Shit

2020-03-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the

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Sunday Matinee: Clark Gable and Loretta Young in the Call of the Wild

2020-03-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Great Ongoing Land Swindle

2020-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Way back on 30 July 2014, in a post titled Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?, I wrote: I mean, we’re

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The Fat Men’s Club

2020-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Here’s a story from Texas Monthly: “Reckhart is Fasting” read the headline of a 1902 El Paso Daily Times. Reckhart, apparently,

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Conflict of Interest?

2020-03-17 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

Yesterday I reported on an article I found on Page 8A of the El Paso Times. The article said that

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The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso

2020-03-17 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that

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