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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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Retrovision: Let’s Pretend

2020-01-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 20 February 2017. Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure

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Retail: Bright Ideas

2019-12-31 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Seis Banderas

2019-12-30 elrichiboy Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Water Parks Leave a comment

According to El Diario de Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group is trying to put a big theme park in Cd. Juarez’

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Full Transparency From Our Friends at EPEC

2019-12-28 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I have this thing at my house that’s like a teevee hooked up to a typewriter. In fact, I’m typing

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Friday Short: The Reckoning

2019-12-27 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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Electric El Paso

2019-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I’ve heard rumors that J.P. Morgan is having a little hard time coming up with the $4.3 billion they need

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Who Rules El Paso?

2019-12-20 elrichiboy Corruption, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

I’ll give you a hint. Follow the money. There’s a new book out titled Who Rules El Paso? Give the

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“Good Cause”

2019-12-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 13 comments

On December 5, I requested the employment contracts for City Manager Tommy Gonzalez from the City of El Paso via

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Poor Man’s Poison: Hell’s Coming With Me

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Rag’n’Bone Man: Human

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Orwellian Doublespeak

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider One comment

God bless those hardworking men and women protecting our nation’s borders. But this new biometric picture-taking program they have at

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Topeka’s Looking Pretty Good

2019-12-16 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Some cities are paying people to move to them. From the New York Times: Add Topeka, Kan., to the growing

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Sunday Matinee: Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

2019-12-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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How To Live in El Paso: London Rocket

2019-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 11 January 2016. It has been lightly edited. If you live in El Paso, you

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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Portugal. The Man: “Feel It Still”

2019-12-11 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Know Your Chile!

2019-12-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

I made some salsa brava the other day. Chile pequin, onion, garlic, and tomatoes, burned in a skillet and run

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2019-12-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,

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El Paso Electric vs. The People

2019-12-08 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

It seems like all those people who are in favor of the Electric Company sale to J.P. Morgan stand to

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Sunday Matinee: The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

2019-12-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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