Country Justice
Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police
More on Developing Downtown
I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to
Some Earnest Questions About Downtown Development
Are the citizens of El Paso supposed to keep pouring money into downtown until all the downtown real estate speculators
Schisms in the War on Drugs
Here’s the article from the Guardian detailing policy differences between U.N. member nations on future drug policy. The story claims
More on Mexico’s Garitas
Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s
Thanksgiving Family Feud
Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,
No More Internal Migration Checks
According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border
Thanks, America, by William Burroughs
Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this
Where’s the Love?
This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so
Wikipedia and the Ballpark
Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story
100 Things
My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.
The Donkey and the Well: A Parable
An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided
Paul Krugman’s New Normal
The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying
Worse Than ASCAP
According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A
Downtown Parking
Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage
American Democracy Unmasked
Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of
The Middle Class is Obsolete
According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,
More on Dwntwn
By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,
The End of the Interwebs
According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest
Dwntwn, Fast and Furious
There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in