Culture, Counterculture, Commentary, and Stuff
I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our
Here’s a great movie with a great pedigree. Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Peter Lorre. Robert Morley. Directed by
Tonight, Friday the 21st, in Juarez there’s another life-and-death barbaric spectacle taking place. Actually, several, probably. But I’m talking about
This from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: After nearly six decades in operation, including many years as the only
If the year has seemed unusually dry to you, it’s only because it has been. According to this graph from
We saw it yesterday at City Council. City Council holds discussions behind closed doors, and then presents their decision to
I just came from a City Council meeting where I saw Jud Burgess get violently arrested. Jud was upset after
Here’s a pretty good Gary Cooper Western, with Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward, a little Rita Moreno, and Mexican actor Victor
The El Paso Police Department has a pretty sketchy record of self-policing. This week, the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal
When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been
A couple of weeks ago I went to one of the “Trolley Safety Meetings.” The meeting was in the auditorium
This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing
The City of El Paso is proposing another TIRZ. TIRZ 13 will be in Northeast El Paso, up against the
Here’s a John Wayne movie you’ve never seen. The Wake of the Red Witch features John Wayne as a sea
To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.
What are the factors that contribute to drug abuse and addiction? We are largely a country of loners. Isolated, by
According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents
Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Check it
Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.
As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article
There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain