That really harshes my mellow.
Category: City Council
An Arena? Really?
Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The
Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor
The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just
It’s getting deep.
In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining
It’s Election Time. Sort of.
We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season
The Truth About Duranguito
Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one
Oh, the irony.
Poor Ann Morgan Lilly. She’s like the queen of a country that no longer exists, and she can’t quite come
Now we know who drives the truck.
I lifted this from the Paso del Sur’s Facebook page about their meeting with elected officials last Friday. For all
Tuesday Night Fights: Mr. Ann Morgan Lilly vs. Mrs. Mayor
Did you see this story about the husband of former City Representative Ann Morgan Lilly allegedly assaulting Mayor Oscar Leeser’s
Did We Take Our City Back?
You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There
Breaking News: Dogfight at City Hall
The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate
Our Local Government In Action
Well, it looks like the City of El Paso will do a better thing than kick poor people out of
Who’s driving this truck?
It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council instead of the other way around. Like this
Life in the Echo Chamber
Here’s what District 3’s sweetheart Emma Acosta had to say in this week’s El Paso Inc. “You keep hearing that
Never Give Up
Remember Jack Handey? He went to Eastwood, and wrote Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live, back when SNL was good.
Curiouser and Curiouser
Isn’t it weird that self-professed Chicano political blogger Jaime Abeytia is in favor of evicting the abuelitas from Duranguito so
Why can’t they just talk to us like we’re adults?
Opposition to the arena is pretty widespread. At least, opposition to putting it in the proposed location. Texas State Senator
The City’s War on Small Business
God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless. Here’s a letter to the editor of the
Snake Pit
Remember when you were four or five, and you found out that Santa Claus was just a character invented by
What’s the Rush?
Why is City Council in such a hurry to build an arena? Well, City Council won’t tell us, so I