For the Better

For your consideration, what does a change in office, unpredictable markets at home and abroad, new technologies in energy, medicine, and so on mean for El Paso? Tomorrow isn't guaranteed today for anybody or anything and El Paso is in a position to take some major strides in advancing our City for the better amidst these uncertain times. Our community has bucked national economic trends again and again with the fierce flowing lifeline of our international bridges stacking up revenues for local outfits. We are the Pass, a thriving community that has served scores of travelers and passer-bys, military, immigrants, merchants, whomever and whenever since the presence of the natives in Ysleta and the Spanish. Our City is a beam of light that rises out of the sandy Chihuahuan desert brush. However I feel that our leaders of the recent past might not have shared the same grandiose visions for progress with our early City founders and subsequent first elected officials. If I were in a position to do so I would push hard for the City to consider being more open to Progressive and Modern projects and agendas. Like what you may ask? For instance, has the City had the opportunity to evaluate cost-cutting strategies by using cleaner alternative sources of power? What about the whole Smart Growth initiatives for developers? Did the City make an attempt to protect more arroyos (the ones left anyways) from being paved into neighborhoods? Been out to Far East El Paso lately? There are no tree-lined streets or medians, hardly a park in sight, and its not very pedestrian friendly. Come on El Paso, we deserve better and we can do better. Its up to the families and neighborhoods to rally to propel EP into the rest of the 21st century. We live in a global village nowadays where every person and country are at our fingertips. We live on the beating pulse of two countries and have access to so much. Let's throw open our doors and work hard to change our city for the better.

Comments

[El Chuco]

Maybe I'll see you this weekend.

[El Chuco]

I put a link for the UH vs. UTEP game but it didn't post.

[El Chuco]

Glad to see you were at the game, though you were a little quiet than from what you show on this here blog. Tell your boy "Super Miner" I say "DEFENSE"! See you at the UTEP event in H-Town!

[Michelle]

I agree with you, the current administration however, has done a good job, when I visited El Paso I was amazed at how beatiful the libary and area around it is. Slowly but surely I have faith El Paso will get there. And if I can find a decent job out there then they I will go and help it get there.

[El Chuco]

Mike,

Is this the response you were working on for me? As for Brain Drain, putting up another park or lining the medians with trees will not help me make my decision for staying in El Paso. As Michelle states, find her/graduates of UTEP a decent job and they'll return/stay.

[Mike.Arriaga]

Hey there bud, this post is my friend Carlos'.

It was nice meeting you at the game. I am a quiet guy most of the time, the observer type. I don't thik I'm very boisterous on this blog, but if you say so. haha

I hadn't seen some of my friends from UTMB and San Antonio for a while, so I was busy catching up with them. I was at the Rice game last year where UTEP also completely collapsed in the 4th quarter, so I knew something was bound to happen again this year.

I'm sure we'll run into each other again at the basketball game next year.

[El Chuco]

I should have read the posted by. My bad. Well, Carlos can respond.