Making downtown vibrant was always a tough task. COVID made it harder. Sealed office buildings where the windows don’t open?
Category: Coronavirus
COVID Testing
Say you’ve got symptoms. Chills. Fever. Muscle aches. Are you going to get tested? The word on the street is
Hemp Fights COVID
From OregonState.edu: Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the
Dealing With the Plague
My personal physician and bodyguard had this to say: We should just do away with masking and social distancing and
The City of El Paso is Chueco
From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to accept a recommendation to reallocate $15 million in federal funding for
La Feria on Avenida Juarez
There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus
Losing Faith In Our Institutions
Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab
A Cure for Covid?
Living on the edge of three states and two countries makes you appreciate the arbitrary vagaries of legislative jurisdictions. In
A Decline in Democracy
Here’s a piece from America’s Quarterly that documents the deterioration of democracy in the Americas, including in the USA. Globally
How to Live in El Paso – Franklin Mountains State Park
The pandemic made some winners. Amazon. Best Buy. FedEx, and UPS. Locally, Crazy Cat. People wondered whatever happened to that
Are Office Buildings Obsolete?
Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air
It’s Who You Know
From a Letter to the Editor in the El Paso Times: Last week, KFOX News reported on a vaccination event
Marijuana Might Save Your Life
From High Times Forbes.com: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, researchers have started to look for solutions in an unlikely
Why Aren’t Masks Free?
If the single most effective thing we can do to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus is for everybody to
Cooking the Books?
Here’s another story from the people’s English language daily: El Paso County has officially surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 COVID-19-related
Secrets of Horse Trading
I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is
How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?
Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?
“New Mexico Passes $330 million coronavirus relief bill”
Allocates Big Bucks to Help Businesses Struggling from the Pandemic From CBSNews.com: New Mexico lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bipartisan
Where Has the Money Gone?
As of this morning, El Paso has recorded 81,511 positive tests for the Coronavirus, and 862 Covid-19 deaths. On May