A Politician’s Spin on Economic Development
According to this story in the El Paso Times, Mayor Oscar Leeser had this to say about El Paso’s economic
The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.
According to this story in the El Paso Times, Mayor Oscar Leeser had this to say about El Paso’s economic
You know that when Mayor Oscar Leeser and Borderplex Alliance President Rolando Pablos hit the road trying to entice businesses
In the past year, the Mexican peso has lost more than 25 percent of it’s value. A year ago it
I almost feel bad making fun of these guys. Obviously they’re doing their darnedest. On the other hand, El Paso’s
Been downtown lately? There are lots of things happening downtown. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of people. Maybe the people
Then there’s this that just popped up on the El Paso Times website: El Paso police found more than a
This morning I posted a piece about Sense of Place. Now I’m going to tell you about something similar: Ambience.
You know who could make a lot of money in El Paso? A lawyer who specialized in suing the police.
Here’s a nugget from Urbanland, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute, written by Edward T. McMahon: In 2010, the
This story from our friends at La Polaka tells us about two matronly types who were arrested in Juarez for
From my friend a former federal agent: If you’re ever in a knife fight, and you get to the other
The Moctezuma Cafe was a little dive bar in downtown El Paso. It was a block from the courthouse and
Demolition in our urban core not only destroys historic buildings, it destroys any chance of revitalizing downtown. What’s going to
Here are a couple of stories from the national press that may make you question what you hear from the
Could the power brokers behind El Paso’s city government have arranged for the City Manager’s $61,000 a year raise? According
According to this story from the Associated Press, going to Mexico isn’t going to be the carefree stroll it always
El Paso Electric didn’t want to be last in the line of people asking El Pasoans for more money. From
District 2 City Representative Larry Romero’s guest column in Sunday’s El Paso Times included this nugget: If the El Paso
People who say that we had to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez a $61,000 raise to keep another city from
The Borderplex Alliance, an entity dedicated to regional economic development, commissioned a study by Angelou Economics to develop a plan