[[{“value”:” Less than five months after he was fired by our City Council and paid nearly $890,000 in severance, Tommy Gonzalez was hired July 11, 2023 as City Manager of Midland with…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Chuqueño Blog – Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPISD TRUSTEE CUELLAR ANNOUNCES “WE’RE NOT GONNA RAID THE FUND BALANCE,” TEACHER LAYOFFS IMMINENT
[[{“value”:” EPISD is facing a deficit of $33.8 million in FY 2026, including $3.2 million for reopening Lamar Elementary. The Emperor of the Board, Leah Hanany, has absolutely no plan to avert…
El Chuqueño Blog – “Mr. Polaroid”
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El Chuqueño Blog – El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?
From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long plateauing of people, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau….
The Border Chronicle – Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup and Video Conversation about Border Militarization: May 30
Watch Todd’s video Q&A (above) with sociologist Timothy Dunn, one of the top experts on border militarization in the United States. Dunn talks about the new phase of militarization happening right now…
The Border Chronicle – “In Beauty May I Walk”: A Reflection on Walking from the Border to Tucson for 22 Years
Subscribe now At the wall in Sasabe before the walk started. (Photo by Todd Miller) Share The annual Migrant Trail began Monday with a solemn ceremony to remember and honor the people…
El Chuqueño Blog – CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues
From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority and has asked the Third Judicial District Court to appoint an…
El Chuqueño Blog – The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
Residents listening from outside the May 21 Sunland Park City Council Meeting The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City…
El Chuqueño Blog – The New Hypernormalization
From TheGuardian.com: First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening. The first…