By Bob Chessey This is Part 3 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Valera’s Arrest The

City of Dust: Negra, New Mexico
Paying a Visit to the Williams It’s time to head south out of House, New Mexico, drop down off the
The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.
Paying a Visit to the Williams It’s time to head south out of House, New Mexico, drop down off the
Here’s the speech Tyrion Lannister gave to Bennington College’s Class of 2012. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.
El Paso’s a poor town, and we’re not getting any richer. That’s just a fact. We’re at the absolute bottom
Here’s a list from everybody’s favorite click-bait list creator. WalletHub did a study of the most and least educated MSAs
Watch this video on YouTube Memories are fickle things. I can have a conversation and struggle to remember something from
Or at least extremely conservative. The proposed budget show sales tax revenues declining by $525,000. El Paso hasn’t experienced a
Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.
Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not
Here’s a great documentary I found on somebody’s Facebook. (You know who you are.) It features all the jazz greats
Our city leaders have been ostensibly pursuing strategies that lead to economic development. If that’s their real goal, then they’re
As you know, Alberto “Beto” Halpern was seriously hurt in a car accident three days after his wedding and three
My Ouija board says they’re all shook up in the halls of power around here. Not about the court’s decision
Let’s see. $66 million in Certificates of Obligation raises the average residential tax bill $50 a year. So issuing $180
Did you read that the Doña Ana County Jail Director got busted for pot? From the Las Cruces Sun Times:
Did you read this weekend’s El Paso Inc.? It’s pretty good. Here’s the lede from one story: What began as
Here’s one of those cartoonish James Bond secret agent knockoffs that I cut my milk teeth on. Watch this video
DavidK has an early analysis of the upcoming Escobar versus Fennenbock race for the Democrat nomination for Beto’s open Congressional
On the Edge of the Staked Plain The more I learn about the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plain, the massive
I’m standing at the bar in a 97-year-old cantina in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. The whole bar is about fifteen feet
I’ve got a math problem for you. Don’t worry, we’re not giving grades, and we’re not asking for real numbers