The Democrats are Giving Away the Election
I watched about five minutes of the Democrat convention. Five minutes is all I could take. The problem was it
Summer’s Halfway Over
Good news, everyone. This year’s long, hot, dry, spell, what we call “summer”, should end sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
The Mutant Virus
The skeptics point to Covid-19 fatality rates that are lower than projected and cry “Fraud”. But recent research indicates a
Rest in Peace, Preston Foster
Preston Foster died last week in a one-car accident in Colorado. El Chuqueño extends our sincerest condolences to his family
The Death of Democracy in El Paso
Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going
Our Fearless Leader
A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit
A Long Walk on a Short Pier
More good news. From this week’s El Paso Inc.: As they exhaust pandemic aid and see no end to the
Our Charitable Overlords
Here’s a perspective on charitable giving by the rich during the pandemic, from that socialist rag, the Guardian. Private philanthropy
We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead
You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what
Getting What You Pay for?
Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:
El Paso’s Climate Refugees
Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the
