Your comments about the traffic illustrate the point I was trying to make: based on population, El Paso has received less than half of the state highway funding it deserves. Because so few people register and vote, the rest of the state doesn't care about El Paso.
As far as my local taxes go, I'm paying much less than I would on a comparable home in El Paso.
They aren't working there anymore ---it's completely shut down ---too bad too because that place was worth driving past at chili harvest time. They've shut down Furrs, most of Levis, the Casino. More and more the border area is like Mexico itself --people leaving by the thousands, more people from Mexico moving in who don't have skills or education. It's not good.