At the October 3, 2017, meeting, the El Paso City Council passed the following ordinance: That the City Manager is
Category: Economic Development
El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen
The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso
Where’s Peter?
Here’s former City Representative and mayoral candidate Steve Ortega talking about the trolley in the El Paso Scene: Among the
As Goes Baltimore, So Goes El Paso
Here’s an abstract of a scholarly article from the Journal of Urban Affairs. The title of the paper is “Downtown
I Love El Paso
El Paso is a great town. The people are friendly and unpretentious. The weather’s good, mostly. The sunsets are often
All I Want is Good Government
That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.
Why They Need an Arena
Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso
Better Bike Sharing
LimeBike recently raised $50 million in its second round of capital funding to expand its operations in the U.S. The
Bloomberg on Jaime Bermúdez
Here’s a story from Bloomberg News on the Godfather of Maquilas, juarense Jaime Bermúdez. In Ciudad Juárez, along the U.S.-Mexico
The Good . . .
Ready One, nee the National Company for the Employment of the Disabled, the enterprise that former CEO Bob Jones drove
The Bad . . .
El Paso made a couple more lists this week. We’re number nine on the list of fastest warming cities, according
The Local Economy Is Doing Great. Except Structurally.
Good news, everybody. The local economy is doing great. From the El Paso Inc.: What if someone said the U.S.
Plan B
Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to
We’re Going to Revitalize Ourselves to Death
It’s time to stop pretending like El Paso’s biggest challenge is downtown revitalization. Here’s MountainStar Sports Group’s Executive Director Josh
A Horror Story
With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share this true life horror story. The City of El Paso’s
Welcome to Rancho El Paso
El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,
Retrovision: Forget the Arena
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
It’s Time for Plan B
No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life
I Want a Salad, Not a Soup
Our city leaders are trying to give El Paso all the soul of an airport food court. That’s bad, but
Straight Talk About the Arena
There’s a lot of noise about the arena. Duranguito. Gringolandia. Contempt of court. Arrogant and dismissive. Mysterious phone surveys. Voter