downtown ballpark

Construction crews are working around the clock to complete the brand new multi million dollar downtown ballpark that will be the home of the El Paso Chihuahuas.

UPDATE: The Anti-ballpark lady is coming on the morning show on Tuesday, October 16th! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON YOUR COMPUTER.

During the KLAQ Morning Show yesterday, we had former newswoman-turned-attorney-turned-activist Stephanie Townsend Allala on talking about her views opposing the downtown ballpark. Let's just say things got a little heated. At one point when I asked her to prove her contention that the city councilors in favor of building the ballpark had illegally voted for it, she told me to shut up...

The Morning Show had an excellent -- ahem -- discussion with former newswoman-turned-attorney-turned-activist Stephanie Townsend Allala this morning about building the downtown ballpark. As Ms. Allala was sitting in my chair, she decided to use my laptop to log in to her Facebook page...which she left open! So, my dilemma was: leave it alone, or mess with it? Short dilemma. OF COURSE YOU MESS WITH

While appearing on the KLAQ Morning Show today, Steve Kaplowitz dropped a couple of doozies, even by Kaplowitz standards. First, he said that "since the Mountain Star Group has pledged to give proceeds to local charities, people who are against the ballpark are really anti-charity"...

The "Play Ball, El Paso" rally drew a few hundred El Pasoans to Cleveland Square downtown in front of City Hall in a show of support for the downtown baseball stadium project. MountainStar Sports spokesman Steffen Poessiger talked about the rally and the issues behind it.

David Crowder writes in El Paso Inc. about the former Mayor of Fresno who warns of the cycle of crushing debt that his city faced after constructing a downtown baseball stadium. There are a lot of demographic and economic similarities