


Homeowners Carry the Burden
Here’s a couple of factoids I extracted from this El Paso Times article about rising property valuations: The overall market

City Council to Vote on Districting
City Council will meet in a Special Session this afternoon with only one item on the agenda: Discussion and action

Jaguars, Almonds, and Mary Jane
By Kent Paterson Well, it’s finally come to pass. Denizens of the Land of Enchantment – and their neighbors –

Congratulations, Tommy G!
Look at this ad in this week’s El Paso Inc.: Did you see who the ad’s apparent sponsors are? Who

El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance
In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

reddit.com/r/ElPaso
Did you know that there’s an El Paso sub-reddit? Here’s a post from reddit.com/r/ElPaso : Is it just me or

Ahead of the Curve
Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

We’re Fourth (From the Bottom)
An alert reader just hipped me to this table from DQYDJ.com showing comparative rankings for metro areas in the U.S.

Retrovision – Nothing’s For Sure but Debt and Taxes
(This post originally ran on 10 March 2017.) The ever-vigilant Brutus over at El Paso Speak alerted me (and all

Take Me Out to the Ballgame
The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

The Naked Emperor
Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty