Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to indefinitely postpone the proposed arena in Duranguito. Let’s
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Let Them Eat Cake
From the Washington Post (paywall): Farmers in the upper Midwest euthanize their baby pigs because the slaughterhouses are backing up
Dee Margo’s Task Force
Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the pits, but our mayor has a plan. Dee
“There are things more important than living.”
Purple flowers are taking over my backyard. They’ve claimed a solid half of one of the raised beds, and they’re
In the Rough
From the El Paso Times: El Paso’s award-winning, 18-hole Butterfield Trail golf course will be closed at the end of
About J.P. Bryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVNuRwOXsE District 1 City Representative Peter Svarzbein called J.P. Bryan a “Houston billionaire” during Monday’s City Council work session. Like
Breaking News vs. Broken News
The first person listed on the El Paso Times’ weekly feature, El Paso’s Most Wanted, is a 61 year-old man
Dee Margo in His Own Words
From the May 29, 2017, El Paso Inc.: [Mayoral candidate Dee Margo] says he’ll take what’s broken at City Hall
Watching Our Wasteline
The trolley’s not coming back. Right? The City will break it out for special events, like Chalk the Block. Maybe
At Least They’re Honest About It
From the ElPasoMatters.org About Us page: Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and
Will Tommy G Self-Quarantine?
Did you see the new directives for dealing with COVID-19? Especially this one? Except for Healthcare Operations in Section 5(c),
We Should Fire Tommy Gonzalez
He might be a nice guy. Maybe. He’s been here five years, and I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of
I Think I’ve Got the Coronavirus
On February 29th, I shook hands with someone who, unbeknownst to me, had just returned from Milan. A couple of
About That Gran Logia del Lobo
Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support
Sam Morgan is Full of Shit
God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the
The Great Ongoing Land Swindle
Way back on 30 July 2014, in a post titled Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?, I wrote: I mean, we’re
Conflict of Interest?
Yesterday I reported on an article I found on Page 8A of the El Paso Times. The article said that
The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso
The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that
Bernie Sanders on the EPEC Sale
There’s a story in today’s El Paso Times: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and two other United States senators want two
Bertrand Russell on Local Politics
Sometimes, when me and my friends are passing around the plastic flask of Old Forrester, the conversation turns to the