Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe
According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year. El Paso’s hotel occupancy
“Don’t Fix City Budget With More PSB Fees”
That’s the headline from a guest column in this week’s El Paso Inc. It was written by outgoing board member
A Penthouse in the Heart of Downtown
One of El Paso’s reclusive millionaires has a penthouse in downtown El Paso. I’ve always wondered what it looked like,
Expect Less
Billionaire Jeff Greene is taking lots of flack for saying “America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to
Border Patrol Shoots, Kills Man Who Drove Through Sierra Blanca Checkpoint
Those Border Patrol checkpoints can be deadly. This story came from KURV710, Fox News Radio: The U.S. Border Patrol says
Go to Mexico
Travel in Mexico is great. The country is beautiful, the culture is rich, and the dollar is strong. A decent
NY Speaker Arrested for Corruption. Is Texas Next?
This from the Associated Press: New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused
Don’t Blame the Bigs
It’s not fair to lay the blame for El Paso’s recent poor performance on lists like Milken’s Best Performing Cities,
Where are the Good Cops?
Here’s a story from CounterCurrentNews.com. “If you snitch, your career is done,” one officer told him. He eventually became public
Is El Paso Safe? Not According to NASCAR Driver Kurt Bucsh
According to this story on Delaware Online: Once, he [Kurt Busch] said, they were in El Paso, Texas, where [Busch’s
Be Careful Out There
Maybe you haven’t got your tickets yet for Rick Springfield’s concert at the Plaza Theatre on March 6. But if
If there are Good Cops, then how can there be Bad Cops?
You always hear that, that not every cop is bad. But wouldn’t good cops arrest bad cops? Don’t good cops
She’s Like a Tibetan Monk
In a selfless act of political immolation, City Representative Cortney Niland threw her aspirations for continued public service on the
In Defense of the Local Media
Hey, times are hard in the print industry. You can only tighten your belt so much before you have to
Coming Soon: Will Ballpark-gate Ruin Rick Perry’s White House Run?
Let me just leave this here for now while I work on it. Maybe the indictments are already in the
Bringing Business to El Paso: The Water Problem
You’ve probably read this story in the El Paso Times, about how El Paso is running out of water. The
The Bane of QoL: O & M
El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years, when Fort Bliss was expanding and Juarez was
Because They Care
Good news, El Paso. MountainStar Sports Group wants to save us money. According to this story in the El Paso
Word of the Day
Corruption – dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers); source: www.merriam-webster.com Example