Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El
Category: Brand El Paso
A Private Letter To Paul Foster
If you’re not Paul Foster, please stop reading this. Pablo, Can I call you Pablo? I mean, it’s just us.
Will Paul Foster Do Better?
Now that the Borderplex Real Estate Investment Trust has sold its downtown real estate assets to Paul Foster’s Franklin Mountain
Water Parks = Economic Development
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to
The Effects of Corruption
Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly
Six Years On
On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of
On The Other Hand
Here’s a story about some police violence perpetrated by the Boston Transit Authority Police: A former transit police officer and
Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls
Do y’all remember REDCo? Sure you do. If you’re not old enough to remember REDCo, you’ve already left El Paso
Our Dirty Little Secret
Imma let you in on a little secret. In El Paso, we don’t get the best and brightest. Look, for
El Paso in the Guardian
Lately El Paso has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. But here’s something nice. Here’s a story
Comedy Council
From KVIA, here’s Representative Henry Rivera, addressing the leak of a draft of City Manager Tommy “Great Wolf” Gonzalez’ new
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is an inflection point in the evolution of El Paso. Today, voters in the state either will or won’t
The City’s War Against Poor People
City Council has turned public policy into a war against poor people. Which is weird, because El Paso is poor.
“The True Cost of Corruption”
Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an
Future El Paso
Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in
From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”
If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind
El Paso’s Finest
By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case
On The Road Again
According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth
The Death of the American City
This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has
I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake
The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never