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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: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

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Tejon Street Corner Thieves: Whiskey

2019-10-03 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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The ROI of Campaign Donations

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

Deciphering what’s happening at City Hall is like trying to see the truth through a cracked crystal. From CBS4Local.com: The

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Shank Shank Shank Went the Trolley

2019-10-02 elrichiboy Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley 5 comments

First they said it was a bus stop, then they said it was a Sun Metro stop, but I think

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Champions League

2019-10-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

Okay, I’m a little late to the party here, but there’s still lots to play. The first week of UEFA

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Crazies

2019-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Back in 2012, when our city leaders were selling their plan to pimp El Paso, those of us who raised

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Down the Economic Development Rabbit Hole

2019-09-27 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, population, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Brutus had a good post at ElPasoSpeak.com yesterday. His post included this slide: Perhaps you’ll remember this article titled Whose

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The Great Divide

2019-09-27 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

El Paso is fractured. Culturally. Geographically. Economically. Politically. And linguistically. According to the most current estimates from the U.S. Census

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It’s Not Too Late To Get Those Tomatoes In The Ground

2019-09-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. The National Weather Service says there a real good chance that this winter will be warmer than usual.

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Retrovision: EL PASO’S BLEAK FUTURE: A CONTRARIAN VIEW

2019-09-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 December 2012. If any of our current elected officials claim that they couldn’t have

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The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

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How Stockton Went Bankrupt

2019-09-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a familiar tune. Only some of the words have changed, and our numbers are bigger. Daniel Berger, a senior

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RIP Chet

2019-09-24 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Music, Slider 7 comments

Chet first came to El Paso playing drums for Big Jack Johnson. Two months later he showed up at Wildhare’s

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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Our Political Class

2019-09-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates

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If You Build it, Will They Come?

2019-09-22 elrichiboy Slider 5 comments

TxDOT says the Border West Expressway project is finished, but you can’t drive on it yet, according to this story

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Do You Trust City Government?

2019-09-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I lifted this from the City’s website: The proposed 2019 Public Safety Bond is the City’s plan to use voter approved bonds

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”

2019-09-12 elrichiboy Art, Music, Slider, Video One comment

From the Wall Street Journal: Just this year, “Old Town Road,” the hip-hop-flavored internet hit by Lil Nas X, made

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