Quality of life
A digital wall.
According to El Paso Inc. we approved $3 million for a 36 foot long, 5 foot high set of 4 plasma TV’s that will go in our history museum. I read in The El Paso Times that this would be the first one like it in the United States. One in Copenhagen attracted 400,000 visitors in its first year. This one would be interactive and would allow you to touch the screen to get information about the history of El Paso.
Let me venture out to predict the future of El Paso: this thing will be a maintenance nightmare.
Are we absolutely out of our minds? The first one in the United States? Why? Could it be because the seller of this thing could not find another city dumb enough to buy one?
Let’s see. We should worry about vandalism, screen life, malfunction, replacement/repair cost and the cost of developing new content to name just a few of the issues. With our current council we need to worry that they will allocate money to paint it.
Maybe I should jump on the bandwagon and buy a taxi cab to transport some of the 400,000 visitors that will fly into our airport just to see a big TV. On second thought I decline.
It looks like this is going to happen. I sincerely hope that I am wrong and that it will be a major success. Children will grow up and tell their grandchildren about the wonderful experience they had back in 2013, the only year that it was operating.
I do know that spending the money on the library or for parks would be a far more certain way of improving the quality of life for our citizens.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
The Copenhagen wall is a great device, you can look it up on the web. I wasn’t for buying this but I’m behind it now. The idea is unique, we’re going to have the same people who built the Copenhagen Wall helping build ours. Are we going to get 400,000 people? No. Are we going to get more people coming to the Museum of History? Most likely. Keep an open mind on this because it’s a LOT better use of taxpayer dollars than the ballpark.
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