Bloomberg on Jaime Bermúdez
Here’s a story from Bloomberg News on the Godfather of Maquilas, juarense Jaime Bermúdez. In Ciudad Juárez, along the U.S.-Mexico
Sunday Matinee: Puppet on a Chain
Here’s a 1971 movie based on an Alistair Maclean novel. The story takes a cop from the U.S. to Amsterdam
The Good . . .
Ready One, nee the National Company for the Employment of the Disabled, the enterprise that former CEO Bob Jones drove
The Bad . . .
El Paso made a couple more lists this week. We’re number nine on the list of fastest warming cities, according
The Ugly
Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of
Billares El Cid
Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income and opportunity, the present is not equally distributed. In Mexico, the
City of Dust: Ricardo, New Mexico
The Ruins by the Rails Ricardo, New Mexico is yet another of the many towns that came to life seemingly
The Local Economy Is Doing Great. Except Structurally.
Good news, everybody. The local economy is doing great. From the El Paso Inc.: What if someone said the U.S.
Plan B
Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to
Embrace the Chaos
Watch this video on YouTube Last week I referenced bats in my head and since what follows struck a nerve
We’re Going to Revitalize Ourselves to Death
It’s time to stop pretending like El Paso’s biggest challenge is downtown revitalization. Here’s MountainStar Sports Group’s Executive Director Josh
Sunday Matinee: Bridge of Spies
Here’s a 2015 instant classic, Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.
Judge Meachum’s Decision
On October 4, the Honorable Amy Clark Meachum of the 250th Judicial District Court in Travis County, Texas, ruled on
What If Guns Aren’t the Problem?
What if our recent spate of mass violence is just a symptom of our country’s bigger issues? Like putting people
Saturday Special Feature: Bad Frank
Here’s a disturbing movie about messing with the wrong guy. Watch this video on YouTube The movie gets off to
Hope & Anchor’s Birthday Party is Today!
I hope you went on Tuesday. But the real party is today. Sorry. I guess I need to learn to
Dirty John in the L.A. Times
Here’s a nice piece of lurid journalism from the Los Angeles Times, a six part series called Dirty John: Their
City of Dust: Hanover, New Mexico
Zinc Town Just three miles southeast of Fierro, New Mexico, the town featured a few weeks ago, is Hanover. Hanover
A Horror Story
With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share this true life horror story. The City of El Paso’s
Welcome to Rancho El Paso
El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,