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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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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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The Horse

2019-11-07 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

The Horse from -_- on Vimeo.

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Brain Drain, Jobs, and Quality of Life

2019-11-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

Which improves your quality of life more? A good paying job, or ballparks, water parks, and and arenas? Fiscal profligacy

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“A Streetcar Named Quagmire”

2019-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 2 comments

From the Wall Street Journal: St. Louis business leaders looking to boost tourism and development spent years bringing the Loop

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Les Louanges: Pitou

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Vote Now. Vote No.

2019-11-05 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections Leave a comment

If you didn’t vote in Early Voting, today is your last chance to cast you ballot. City Council wants you

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L’Trench

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench 8 comments

TxDOT, the Texas Department of Transportation, seems dead set on widening the freeway in downtown El Paso, and not without

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Claudia Ordaz Perez Wants to Raise Your Taxes (Even More)

2019-11-04 elrichiboy Claudia Ordaz Perez Leave a comment

By now you’ve heard that District 6 City Council Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez is running for the Texas Congressional seat

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The Dark Ages in El Paso

2019-11-03 elrichiboy Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Are you interested in a great job in El Paso? Get on with the City. In the old days, a

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Friday Short: The Candidate

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video 4 comments
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Mexico’s Dirty U.A.

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting piece from Insight Crime. A pilot study in Mexico is showing promising results for measuring the frequency and

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Woody Hunt talking About the Arena

2019-11-01 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s Mr. Hunt in a February 19, 2018, El Paso Inc. article titled Woody Hunt: In his own words.: Q:

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The Effects of China Tariffs on South El Paso Street

2019-10-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

You better get down there before the tariffs ripple through the supply chain. How long will it take for the

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The Consequences of Income Inequality in El Chuco

2019-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

The citizens of the City of El Paso are suffering from bad decisions stemming from wealth and income inequality. Our

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Abraham Laboriel: The Bass Walk

2019-10-30 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment
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Dead Bob Sez

2019-10-29 elrichiboy It's a joke., Just Kidding. 2 comments

“I think O. J. did it, but I don’t think he’s guilty.” When you’re already dead, you don’t have to

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At The Polls

2019-10-29 elrichiboy Elections, Slider Leave a comment

All the police and firemen are voting. And their families. All the contractors are voting. And their families, and their

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Does Tommy G Know El Paso?

2019-10-29 elrichiboy City Council, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Do you reckon City Manager Tommy Gonzalez has ever been to the east side? Has he ever had a beer

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The Case Against Gentrification

2019-10-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

El Paso City Government, and the multimillionaires driving the truck, are intent on forcing top-down gentrification on the city. Here’s

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Misplaced Priorities

2019-10-27 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Tomorrow City Council will vote to give $45 million cash to Great Wolf Resorts to build a Great Wolf Lodge

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