Amazon received 238 proposals for the location of its new headquarters. One was in two countries, Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and San Jeronimo, and San Jose del Sol, in Chihuahua, Mexico. The communities together are the, “Los Santos Binational Community.”
It consists of a proposed 100-acre site in each country, a special-use port of entry, and a unique hexagonal design, according to the November 2 NM Partnership Border Region Business Update newsletter.
The Seattle Times, MSN, CNN Money, Business Insider, the Huffington Post/Mexico and USA Today have covered the proposal.
The website is www.HQ2Countries.com.
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Saturday, November 4, 2017
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Columbus Makes National News
The village of Columbus the cnn.com weekend lead story. Here is the link: www.cnn.com/2012/06/10/us/cartels-columbus-new-mexico/index.html?hpt=hp_c1.
Though it doesn't seem possible, Columbus is in a bigger mess than Sunland Park.
Though it doesn't seem possible, Columbus is in a bigger mess than Sunland Park.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Column Sources Listed
My current newspaper column refers readers to several documents used as sources for the column. Here they are:
Two reports from the University of Texas at El Paso’s Border Region Econometric Modeling Project are available for $10 each. They are the Borderplex Economic Outlook: 2011 – 2013, Business Report SR11-1,” referenced in my column, and “Borderplex Long-Term Economic Trends to 2029.”
Send checks made out to University of Texas at El Paso for $10 to:
Border Region Modeling Project - CBA 236,
UTEP Department of Economics & Finance,
500 West University Avenue,
El Paso, TX 79968-0543.
For additional information, contact Thomas M. Fullerton, Jr. and Adam G. Walke,
Department of Economics & Finance,
University of Texas at El Paso,
El Paso, TX 79968-0543.
Telephone 915-747-7747,
Facsimile 915-747-6282,
Email tomf@utep.edu.
The Kaufman Institute New Economy Index is found at: www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/snei_2010_report.pdf
(See http://bestcities.milkeninstitute.org. Registration is required.)
City Journal www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_urban-development.html
Two reports from the University of Texas at El Paso’s Border Region Econometric Modeling Project are available for $10 each. They are the Borderplex Economic Outlook: 2011 – 2013, Business Report SR11-1,” referenced in my column, and “Borderplex Long-Term Economic Trends to 2029.”
Send checks made out to University of Texas at El Paso for $10 to:
Border Region Modeling Project - CBA 236,
UTEP Department of Economics & Finance,
500 West University Avenue,
El Paso, TX 79968-0543.
For additional information, contact Thomas M. Fullerton, Jr. and Adam G. Walke,
Department of Economics & Finance,
University of Texas at El Paso,
El Paso, TX 79968-0543.
Telephone 915-747-7747,
Facsimile 915-747-6282,
Email tomf@utep.edu.
The Kaufman Institute New Economy Index is found at: www.kauffman.org/uploadedfiles/snei_2010_report.pdf
(See http://bestcities.milkeninstitute.org. Registration is required.)
City Journal www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_urban-development.html
Monday, December 12, 2011
Business Weekly Words Trash Union Pacific
The headline and first paragraph of a "news" story follow.
Headline: Union Pacific carves up the desert
First Paragraph of Story: More than four dozen tractors, bulldozers and other heavy machinery are ripping up desert shrub just west of the Santa Teresa Airport in southern New Mexico.
No, this isn’t some Sierra Club publication. The headline and paragraph come from a story in the current New Mexico Business Weekly. I found the story, part of it, online in the current edition. (www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque).
The story is about the site work being done on the new Union Pacific multi-modal facility near Santa Teresa. I think that is the topic. The story appears in the Premium Content section. Being unwilling to pay, I only saw the beginning.
“Carves up the desert?” Well, that’s bad, of course. For a business to “carve up the desert,” that’s bad, too. So business is bad. See where this goes... All in the choice of words.
With the words chosen, media people point the story. In this case, a business publication pointed the story in a manner that is anti-business. That's a sin.
How about: “Massive site preparation underway for Union Pacific project.”
You know, some words not laden with “business is bad” values.
Headline: Union Pacific carves up the desert
First Paragraph of Story: More than four dozen tractors, bulldozers and other heavy machinery are ripping up desert shrub just west of the Santa Teresa Airport in southern New Mexico.
No, this isn’t some Sierra Club publication. The headline and paragraph come from a story in the current New Mexico Business Weekly. I found the story, part of it, online in the current edition. (www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque).
The story is about the site work being done on the new Union Pacific multi-modal facility near Santa Teresa. I think that is the topic. The story appears in the Premium Content section. Being unwilling to pay, I only saw the beginning.
“Carves up the desert?” Well, that’s bad, of course. For a business to “carve up the desert,” that’s bad, too. So business is bad. See where this goes... All in the choice of words.
With the words chosen, media people point the story. In this case, a business publication pointed the story in a manner that is anti-business. That's a sin.
How about: “Massive site preparation underway for Union Pacific project.”
You know, some words not laden with “business is bad” values.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Transportation Wrap: GRIP, passengers and intermodal
In The New Mexican today, Kate Nash has a nice summary of the administration’s GRIP 1 and 2 highway building programs. She mentions the basics and misses an item or two, perhaps because of not being germane to story building things.
The Rail Runner commuter train service between Belen and Santa Fe gets credit for being the most expensive GRIP 1 project at $425 and get further credit for coming at 42% over the original $300 million estimate. While Nash does note Rail Runner 14% one-way ridership drop for the second quarter of 2010, over the 2009 quarter, she doesn’t mention Rail Runner’s operating deficit, $20 million annually is what I remember.
The financing mode—borrowing the money—gets full credit as flakey as well as do the allegations of misbehavior in putting together the financing deals. Gov. Gary Johnson gets appropriate credit for starting the borrowing.
High speed passenger rail seems the Obama administration’s next big thing for railroad. High speed means 100-mph and up 150mph. Last year the administration threw $8 billion at the idea. In response state grant requests totaled $102 billion, reported the Wall Street Journal this weekend (in the August 21-22 edition. This year Congress added $2.3 billion and a 20% state match requirement. State interest withered. Most states, it seems, don’t have the $300 (or more) match money lying around.
The delay of high speed passenger rail may be good, one can easily conclude from the three-page story in the July 24 edition of The Economist. (Registration is required for access. See http://www.economist.com/printedition.) “America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best,” the article says. Today’s freight trains run about 50 mph with passenger trains limited to no more than 80 mph in part because of track quality.
High speed passenger trains probably would require “expensive train control technology,” not needed now, to keep the fast trains from overrunning the freight. The added passengers would eat track capacity, hurt freight and, in particular, hurt the intermodal rail-container-truck systems that works well.
Intermodal, developing ever so slowly in southern New Mexico, got a bit of a boost with the August 13 announcement of $1.23 million grant from the feds to pay for restarting a suspended feasibility study of expanding commercial rail services along the border with Mexico. Central to all this is the plan by Union Pacific Corp. to build a $150 million intermodal facility near Santa Teresa. I don’t know the status of the UP project.
Not that intermodal development along the border hasn’t been studies about 82 times in the last 25 years, it’s good to hear something may be happening, however modest.
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