Many readers may be aware of the Paso Del Norte Group’s (PDNG) downtown redevelopment plans and its attempt to gentrify the Segundo Barrio neighborhood. What readers may not know is that the […]
The Tentacles Of The PDNG In Education
The Downtown Sports Arenas And “Vision”
The ongoing controversies over the downtown sports arena and gentrification in El Paso is not new to El Paso’s politics. Economic development through “vision” strategies go back to at least 2000 when […]
Plan El Paso
In 2011, Plan El Paso was awarded the Smart Growth award as a model for making cities more compact. Smart growth has being dubbed as the future of America’s urban cities. However, […]
The Smart Growth Philosophy And The Downtown Sports Arena
The idea of using Smart Growth in El Paso goes back to November 2002 when the Caballero administration dubbed their growth strategy as “Smart Growth”. The Caballero philosophy suggested that the role […]
The Last Time Gentrification Was Stopped By The Viejitos – Medina’s Terrorists
Today, many in El Paso know and sometimes discuss the ongoing friction between public policy agendas for economic development and protecting neighborhoods. The narratives include Segundo Barrio, The Glass Beach Study, Duranguito […]
The TIF District Primer For Gentrification
The Border Health Institute’s (BHI) vision, as proposed by then-mayor Ray Caballero and publicly propelled by Eliot Shapleigh, required land to implement it. The land that surrounded the proposed BHI medical campus […]
The Caballero Enemies List – Sito Negron
On May 3, 2003, Ray Caballero lost his reelection campaign to Joe Wardy, 23.9% to 58.35%, making Caballero a one-term mayor. Caballero lost largely on the TIF district fiasco although the 11.8% […]
Guest Editorial – Xavier Miranda On School Face-to-Face Resuming
Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are lacking, in that educators will contend with “learning loss” and trauma associated […]
El Paso About To Achieve Herd Immunity?
The Texas Health and Human Services COVID-19 dashboard shows that 43.21% of the Texas population is now fully vaccinated against Covid, as of this morning. To be considered fully vaccinated, an individual […]
Deconstructing El Paso’s Identity Crisis
El Paso has a cultural identity crisis. It is Mexican and then it is not. Why this exists can be traced back to two realities. The first is that El Paso, unlike […]
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