The Trouble With TIRZs
The City of El Paso is proposing another TIRZ. TIRZ 13 will be in Northeast El Paso, up against the
Sunday Matinee: The Wake of the Red Witch
Here’s a John Wayne movie you’ve never seen. The Wake of the Red Witch features John Wayne as a sea
Does Your City Council Representative Deserve A Raise?
To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.
Rat Park and Addiction
What are the factors that contribute to drug abuse and addiction? We are largely a country of loners. Isolated, by
Open Government
According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents
The Quiller Memorandum
Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Watch this
The Mayor On Wikipedia
Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article
Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit
There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain
Now, or Later?
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El
The Quest for Continuity
Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our
“Market Value”
Today the County Commissioners are giving themselves a four percent raise. Here’s how Precinct 4 Commissioner Andrew Haggerty justified the
Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life
Sunday Matinee: The Sun Shines Bright
Here’s this trippy John Ford flick from 1953. Here’s what one movie website had to say about John Ford: Among
Friday Short: The Fence
Here’s an award winning short film. With accents, and a modicum of brief violence. Watch this video on YouTube Check
Hope In One Hand . . .
Here’s an article a reader alerted me to, which pretty much sums up the City’s position: Hope is a psychological
What The . . . ?
A UFO? Definitely. A flying saucer? Perhaps. Check out the picture that an avid reader (okay, actually the friend of
Are Their Lips Moving?
El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been
The Freeway Is Open
Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is
Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief
You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For