By Margarita Velez “Never forget.” How many times have those words been repeated since the attack on America in 2001? We held each other in sorrow, prayed together, wept as bodies were recovered from the ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg This time of year, Jews need pomegranates and dear friends of ours always invite my family over to pick plenty of pomegranates from their tree. The kids have a blast finding ...
By Lina-Maria Murillo This past July, Las Brujas del Mar (Witches of the Sea), a feminist group from Veracruz, Mexico, celebrated a major victory for abortion rights in their state. “We thought this day was ...
By The Community First Coalition The Community First Coalition, comprised of civic-minded citizens and organizations plus many other community stakeholders, once again urges the City Council to reconsider the decision to locate the Mexican American Cultural Center within the confines ...
By Jack Loveridge Central El Paso’s Manhattan Heights and Military Heights neighborhoods feature some of the city’s top architectural treasures, but ineffective storm drainage and deadly street flooding are elements of our history that aren’t ...
By Amy O’Rourke and Stephanie Otero Teachers are the backbone of our education system, as they play a key role in driving student outcomes and preparing students for college and careers. If El Paso leaders ...
By Linda Corchado I knew a different border as a child growing up in El Paso in the 1990s. A drive across the Bridge of the Americas to visit my doctor was as fluid as ...
By James K. Willcox/Consumer Reports Millions of Americans struggle to pay for fast internet service, or find that it’s not available where they live, a new Consumer Reports survey shows. The nationally representative survey of ...
By Beto O’Rourke Two years ago today a Texas man killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso. In the manifesto he published shortly before the murders he wrote that he’d come to repel ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg In 1913, a Russian Jew named Mendel Beilis was accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire, in a notorious trial known as the “Beilis affair.” Despite lacking any ...
By Alan G. Parsons As information regarding the proposed site for the new combined training facility for the fire and police department has become available to the public, I have some strong opinions and ideas ...
By Sergio Troncoso We at the Texas Institute of Letters — the officers, council members, and ex-presidents — stand with TIL Member Bryan Burrough, and co-authors Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, of “Forget the Alamo: ...
By Kathy Staudt and Sarahí Soto-Talavera All of a sudden, people are talking about extremely low wages and unfilled employee vacancies in our region. Why? At one of the Corralito restaurants in El Paso, customers saw a ...
By Kathy Blalock Molinar A billboard recently went up in the Dallas suburbs with the line: “Stop Giving Illegals Our Money.” It embodies the dangerous path far too many of our state officials have chosen. ...
By Beto O’Rourke I’m from the border city of El Paso. My parents and grandparents, too. We trace our time in this region back to my great-grandparents, Irish immigrants who followed railroad jobs from Missouri, ...
The following essay is the Introduction from “Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in Between Worlds” (Texas A&M University Press), a collection of essays, short stories, and poems edited by award-winning ...
By Luis Enrique Miranda When you hear the term “the big lie” tossed around by Americans, it is understood that it is in reference to Donald Trump’s claim that the election was a rigged event. ...
By Roman Ortiz Project ARRIBA came to fruition in 1998 to increase the educational attainment levels for an underemployed population living along the Borderplex region. Twenty-two years later, our results have positively affected the quality ...
By state Sens. César J. Blanco, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa and Judith Zaffirini Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently held a press conference to announce his plans for the state of Texas to build a physical border ...
By James Revels Years ago, President Lincoln said, “If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we live forever or die by suicide.” The ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg For the first time in recent history, the entire world experienced a common crisis for an extended period of time. Even as we gradually resume pre-COVID routines, it will never be ...
By Rev. Andries Coetzee As yet another legislative session moves toward a close this month, we are again watching elected leaders exploit LGBTQ people for political gain and try to write discrimination into state law. ...
By Claudia Silva, New Mexico In Depth When Ida Garcia looks out the kitchen window during cool mornings, plumes billowing from a power plant less than a mile away in Texas obscure her view of the ...
By Kaitlyn Urenda-Culpepper Leslie Hoard is running to represent El Paso families on the El Paso Independent School District school board. Her views and behaviors do not befit anyone who should seek to hold public ...
By Sheriff Richard Wiles I am extremely pleased with the result of the trial for the murderer of George Floyd. As I have mentioned previously, watching the horrific video of Mr. Floyd being unlawfully killed ...
By Eddie Rodriguez Before the COVID-19 pandemic brought our nation to a halt, Texas was on the verge of making transformative changes to our public education system. State lawmakers had just passed school funding reform, ...
By Sam Silerio The only electric utility in our city, El Paso Electric (EPE), is now owned by a multibillion-dollar investment fund managed by JPMorgan Chase. By definition, EPE is a monopoly. It also is ...
By Rev. Phil Ley For the past several weeks, national attention has been focused on what is occurring at our southern border. The humanitarian crisis unfolding there is of particular interest to me because I ...
By Georgina C. Perez As a little girl living out of a duffel bag, schools were one of the few stable environments I could rely on. When I got older, the fact that there were ...
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