The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade
Category: Economic Development
Diminishing El Paso
Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue
The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown
Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on
Social Engineering Chuco-Style
I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.
The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19
By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña
El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes
Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:
Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter
Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.
Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step
By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest
Who Killed El Paso?
El Paso’s population growth used to be robust. Right up till 2012. From 2010 to 2012, the population of the
EPEC’s Rate Increase
In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for
Gallium in Round Top Mountain
From EcoPortal.net, a story titled 36,000,000 kg under this American region ? It’s better than lithium and the end of
We’re No. 1!
From El Paso’s English language almost daily: While El Paso has lots to be proud of — endless hiking in
Big Entertainment Projects Are Bad for El Paso
They pitch these projects as drivers of economic development, but they stifle the monetization of local culture, and tax (literally)
Gentrification and Income Inequality in Oaxaca
The benefits of “economic development” are unequally distributed. Sound familiar? Here’s a story bout that theme, and censorship, and tourism
Movin’ On Up
Rolando Pablos, the former CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, and former Texas Secretary of State, and maybe he had some
U.S. Census Bureau: El Paso
Here’s a new page from the U.S. Census Bureau with the latest local info for data nerds. Highlights include Percentage
“There’s nothing to do here.”
by Rich Wright The world is getting smaller. Okay, not really, but it seems like it. Computer algorithms keep pushing
Is El Paso Cool?
I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at
Corruption and the Decline of El Paso
Some people would have you believe that El Paso’s apogee was 1950, and we’ve been in steady decline ever since.
The “Future of El Paso” Debacle
If you only get your news from El Chuqueño, you missed this piece of news. From ElPasoMatters.com: The National Science