El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View
If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an
Killer DIY Drone
This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E
Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?
Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western
Breaking the Taboo
Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Street robots
For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.
Brand Tribalism in El Paso
In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of
The Class Cold War
“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people
Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel
This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on
The voters have spoken.
The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,
The Irony of Irony
“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of
Oops. Looks like I got it wrong again.
Option #1 Upon further review, it seems that the City’s Ordinance 017850 authorized the election about the ballpark based on
The State Law Regarding Public Private Projects
To tell you the truth, I am getting issue fatigue deciphering all the lies and half-truths that are being promulgated
The State Law Regarding New Sports Venues
I spent the afternoon reading the Local Government Code, Title 10, Subtitle C, Chapter 334, “Sports and Community Venues.” It’s
Baseball is dead
Americans are also losing interest in what was long called the national pastime. Baseball has steadily declined in favor, with
Lank is At Large and Dangerous
And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch
The Golden Life
There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable
Government Serving the Oligarchs
The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated
Playing ball
According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary
Monorail!
http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw
$20 million?
Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008