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Mayor Margo’s Priorities
From an El Paso Times story about a recent mayoral candidate forum: [Incumbent Mayor Dee] Margo agreed with [candidate Carlos]
The Destruction of Brand El Paso
What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea
Survey: Downtown’s Looking Up
The Downtown Management District conducted a survey recently, and guess what? People are optimistic about our central business district. From
No News Is Good News
If you live in El Paso, after October 5, you will no longer be able to get the dead-tree edition
The Problem With El Paso
The problem is El Paso’s not growing. All the costs of those Quality of Life projects would be easier to
Jay J. Armes, El Paso’s Real Life Action figure
Here’s a long read from Narratively.com about El Paso’s favorite nationally known Private Detective, Jay J. Armes: The Investigators were
We’re All In This Together
From the El Paso Times: Most El Paso city employees will receive a one-time payment this fall from additional sales tax revenue
The Democrats are Giving Away the Election
I watched about five minutes of the Democrat convention. Five minutes is all I could take. The problem was it
Summer’s Halfway Over
Good news, everyone. This year’s long, hot, dry, spell, what we call “summer”, should end sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
The Mutant Virus
The skeptics point to Covid-19 fatality rates that are lower than projected and cry “Fraud”. But recent research indicates a
The Death of Democracy in El Paso
Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going
Our Fearless Leader
A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit
A Long Walk on a Short Pier
More good news. From this week’s El Paso Inc.: As they exhaust pandemic aid and see no end to the
We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead
You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what
Getting What You Pay for?
Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:
El Paso’s Climate Refugees
Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the
Agents Provocateur
Agents provocateur are a standard element of the anarchist playbook. They’ll get in with some peaceful protestors, and then break
It’s the Water
Alert reader Mr. Natural tipped me to this article from NewAtlas.com: A new systematic review of more than a dozen
Amazon is Coming
From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company