Thursday, December 26, 2002

I'm So Proud Of My Town Just this morning I decided to brighten my day with the official web page for the City of Eagle Pass.  If you have yet to check that site out, do yourself the favor and trot on over there.  Go ahead -- I'll wait.                                             A real piece of work, isn't it?  Hopefully you savored each moment, joyfully reading the history of Eagle Pass (available on the left menu bar).  Actually, if you did read that, maybe you'll have noticed that it almost seemed to be more a history of Piedras Negras than EP.  Now I can't read Spanish all that well, but jumping on over to the much better looking Piedras Negras website, and just glanicing through it -- I don't see Eagle Pass mentioned more than once in its historia.  Methinks that tells you something about the mindset of our local government. Back to the official web page for the City of Eagle Pass.  Notice how the menu is organized.  What comes after the riveting history of Eagle Pass?  Annexation Hearings.  Of which, as of this date, there are none.  Great!  Moving further along, do we find information about tourism, or local businesses, or anything giving us a taste of the local sights and sounds?  No.  But we do get a nice breakdown of the local tax office.  Again, that tells you something about our priorities around here. Moving even further down the menu, we come to City Government.  Go ahead and click on "Mayor" if you haven't done so already.  Pretty cool, huh?  Our mayor looks a lot like an empty room.   Oh the symbolism runs thick on the official web page for the City of Eagle Pass. Now I could go on and on about some of the other links on that menu.  Links that go nowhere.  Links that go to more pictures rather than useful information (Parks and Recreation being a personal favorite.  Now I know exactly how to get in touch with them).  Links that go to even worse webpages than the one they came from (which is saying a hell of a lot).  But instead, let's just jump down to a few more examples of absolute genius at work: Notice under "Local Organizations" that the first entry is the much more nifty Piedras Negras website.  Now they may be local in a sense, but they ain't Eagle Pass.  But then again, according to our local government, they are. Click on the Chamber of Commerce link and then please explain to me how our slogan can be "Where Yee-hah meets Ole."  That's just plain embarassing. Finally notice the last category of links on the menu:  State Agency.  Now this is really cool.  Not only does it have two listings underneath it, though the category title prepared you for just one, but the second "State Agency" is "Federal Government."  It's so comforting to know that our local government can distinguish between the state and national levels. Well, if you have the time or inclination, take a moment to write to Enrique Gómez, Jr. and Tony Peñalver at egomezjr@cityofeaglepass.com and thank them for doing their city proud. 10:52:39 AM     |

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