By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking from the vessel include Bob Weir, rhythm…
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The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY ALLOCATED $8.6M FOR ITS 2024 PUBLIC ART PLAN
[[{“value”:” This past February our City Council voted to allocate $8,593,000 for public art installations as part of the 2024 Public Art Plan. It was on October 28, 2014 that the City…
El Chuqueño Blog – “Four Dead in 5 Seconds”
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The Border Chronicle – Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup April 18
Subscribe now Ask an Expert: Jerry Pacheco Jerry Pacheco, president of the Border Industrial Association in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Share When it comes to trade, as so many other things in…
The Border Chronicle – Under Trump Military Expansion, Soldiers May Soon Police Civilians at the Border
U.S. Army soldiers take part in a joint patrol alongside Border Patrol near Del Rio, Texas, on April 9, 2025. (Photo credit: U.S. Army Capt. Maria L. Salcido) Subscribe now More than…
El Chuqueño Blog – Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe
This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming through downtown. I could…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – COUNCIL APPROVES $4.8M PROPERTY PURCHASE FOR CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION IN UNION PLAZA
[[{“value”:” We broke the news on March 4 that the City is planning a major expansion of the Convention Center south of San Antonio Avenue, up to the edge of Overland Avenue….
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – SAMANIEGO, STOUT AND CORONADO RUNNING FOR REELECTION, VOTED TO ISSUE MASSIVE DEBT AND RAISE THEIR OWN SALARIES
[[{“value”:” Adam Powell of the El Paso Times nailed it in his report on the reelection bids of Samaniego, Stout, and Coronado: “Stout and Samaniego pushed the unpopular $340 million CO to…
The Border Chronicle – Breaking News: White House Says New Section of Texas Border to be Under Federal Military Jurisdiction
Subscribe now During Tuesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, announced that at least 90 miles of Texas border will be placed under federal military jurisdiction. Leavitt did not specify when…
The Border Chronicle – Listening to the Borderlands
Organ Pipe National Monument. Image courtesy of the artists / Dia Art Foundation Subscribe now One small pleasure of living in Southern Arizona is how often people on the other end of…