During the chaos of the Ruidoso wildfires, as the village was being evacuated, not everybody there came to help. While there are no stories of looting, there was a burglary.
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?
The El Camino Real Heritage Center sits about 40 miles from Socorro, New Mexico ... practically, the middle of nowhere as it is ... all by itself , surrounded by hundreds of miles of open desert.
It started in Los Alamos with water used to cool a power plant. The contaminated water, loaded with cancer causing heavy metals, became a mile long, underground, body of water that is now beginning to seep into other water sources.
Sunland Park New Mexico was once pretty much just under 20,000 people, Western Playland and Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino. Technically, you could count the State Line Restaurant too but now, there's sooo much more going on.