Since 2012, El Paso’s population has only grown by 4,723. El Paso has the third highest property tax rates in

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.
Since 2012, El Paso’s population has only grown by 4,723. El Paso has the third highest property tax rates in
Did you see this story in this week’s El Paso Inc.? Historic preservationists are pressing ahead with a plan to
Hollywood is dead and they don’t even know it. At least that’s the premise of this story in Vanity Fair.
There are some powerful forces supporting putting the arena in Duranguito. Weird, huh? Who wants the arena? Obviously no one
That plan for the arena was based on three big lies (and a lot of little ones). To wit: 1)
Here’s a story from the New Yorker (via Molly Malloy’s Frontera List) that should throw a shadow on the graves
Not too long ago, the local machine said we should be like Oklahoma City, developing downtown through sports infrastructure. Now
What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy. A downtown arena, or the value of the
This week David Crowder unpacks the arena rebate, and things aren’t what the City told us. From an article titled
Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The
In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining
The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google
Frequent commenter John G. Dungan sent this in to remind us of our history. The constant push from City Council
Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain
You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There
The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate
Here’s an article about Winston-Salem from Politico, from a series called What Works. The series is dedicated to exploring the
God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless. Here’s a letter to the editor of the
Here’s more good news for El Pasoans. According to this story from El Paso’s finest English language daily, electric rates
Why is City Council in such a hurry to build an arena? Well, City Council won’t tell us, so I