Culture, Counterculture, Commentary, and Stuff
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
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El
Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our
Today the County Commissioners are giving themselves a four percent raise. Here’s how Precinct 4 Commissioner Andrew Haggerty justified the
This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life
Here’s this trippy John Ford flick from 1953. Here’s what one movie website had to say about John Ford: Among
Here’s an award winning short film. With accents, and a modicum of brief violence. Check it out.
Here’s an article a reader alerted me to, which pretty much sums up the City’s position: Hope is a psychological