arena – Page 3 – El Chuqueño

Surprise! We’re Poor!

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According to this story in the El Paso Inc., jobs in El Paso pay only 72 percent of the national

Why They Need an Arena

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Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

The Master Plan

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How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

Did You Feel That?

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Was it a change in the weather, or is that what it feels like when the worm turns? Things are

MountainStar Sports Group Soccer Survey

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MountainStar contracted with a sports marketing management consulting company to conduct a survey to gauge El Paso’s interest in their

The Ugly

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Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of

Plan B

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Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to

We’re Going to Revitalize Ourselves to Death

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It’s time to stop pretending like El Paso’s biggest challenge is downtown revitalization. Here’s MountainStar Sports Group’s Executive Director Josh

Judge Meachum’s Decision

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On October 4, the Honorable Amy Clark Meachum of the 250th Judicial District Court in Travis County, Texas, ruled on

A Horror Story

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With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share this true life horror story. The City of El Paso’s

Welcome to Rancho El Paso

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El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,

Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

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They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When El Paso blew up, say from somewhere around

Retrovision: Forget the Arena

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This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

It’s Time for Plan B

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No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life

Straight Talk About the Arena

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There’s a lot of noise about the arena. Duranguito. Gringolandia. Contempt of court. Arrogant and dismissive. Mysterious phone surveys. Voter

Greetings From Gringolandia!

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Wish you were here! County Commissioner Vince Perez is all in our face about Senator Jose Rodriguez’ quote in Texas

Finally, A Good News Story About El Paso

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Here’s a story in Texas Monthly that paints El Paso as an enlightened community. Fighting the developers. Duranguito and the

What Could We Do With $180 Million?

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If we spend $180 million for a redundant arena, that’s $180 million we can’t spend on something else. Some people

Hasta La Vista

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This just in, from the El Paso Times: AT&T is closing its East Side call center by the end of

The Story That Didn’t Happen

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At three Tuesday afternoon I was home, trying to punch out a story through the fog of the night before.