There are some things though that are very polarizing in El Paso, things that peeps draw a firm line through where it's either "hell yeah" or "F no". Here are, I think, the top 3:
Every now and then, someone starts up that crazy, "New Mexico should annex El Paso" BS; insisting that it would be better for both El Paso and the 505. So, if that's the case, how'd we wind up in Texas anyway?
Hurricane Lorena is expected to make landfall near Baja California but the strength of the storm is going to push moisture, as the weather peeps say, into the Southwest and as far in as Central Texas.
Tarantulas can be seen all over Texas and New Mexico pretty much anytime but right now they are really coming out in droves in what appears to be a mass migration. They aren't migrating though, they're male tarantulas trying to score.