El Chuqueño

Here’s an article from the Atlantic on new city slogans for 2011. Even the worst is better than It’s All

There’s been a lot of chatter about Joyce Wilson’s resignation announcement this week. Here’s how I read it. With Ms.

At a time when train tracks separate much of the West Side from downtown, when many of the streets were

Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them. These metaphors for

My wife really loves me.  Even though we fight a lot, yesterday I was feeling a little hungover, and she

I’m just speculating here.  But I think the truth lies behind this statement, as quoted from the El Paso Times:

It’s easy to get mad when the ballpark costs leap another ten million dollars.  It’s easy to point fingers when

I’ve been out of town for a couple nearly four months, and lately when I venture out in El Paso,

There’s this story in the El Paso Times about the City Attorney trying to quash a demand for depositions from

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in this week’s El Paso Inc. It seems that the City proposed an

This morning the El Paso Times noticed that property taxes in El Paso are escalating at an undesirable rate.  Not

  They’re aren’t a lot of decent public spaces left for the common man.  If you squint, the future looks

I got a couple of reports from the meeting last Thursday of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic

Tomorrow the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic Communication Task Force will meet  at the Convention Center to discuss

Two curious and apparently unrelated news stories are eerily inversely similar. In one, a Mexican judge ordered the release of

Uruguay is slightly smaller that the state of Washington. It almost never freezes in Uruguay. Uruguay’s highest point is Cerro

I got invited to a futbol club social gathering the other night.  Dinner was involved.  Chilenos eat late. Oh good,