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 ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Liberty is the core of American life. Patrick Henry’s dramatic speech at the Second Virginia Convention which concluded with, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” is widely credited for setting ...
By Claudia Hernández/Borderless Magazine On a warm February afternoon, Susana Coreas stands outside the door of Casa de Colores in Ciudad Juárez holding a phone in one hand and a 50 peso bill in the ...
By Diego Carlos, Kathy Staudt, and Aaron Waggoner Public education is one of America’s most enduring investments in itself, a keystone for our country’s development. In Texas, it was considered so essential that taxpayer funded, universally ...
By David Marcus I recently realized my mornings have become relatively calm and so much happier. I get up early to read my online subscriptions to the Washington Post, New York Times, the New Yorker, ...
Javier Gutierrez, 48, was discharged from El Paso’s University Medical Center on Wednesday, 133 days after being admitted for treatment of COVID-19. He is going to a rehabilitation hospital initially before heading home. His wife, ...
By Luis Enrique Miranda A few weeks ago, the polar vortex was still terrorizing millions of people across the American South and Mexico’s northern states. During this time, I was in contact with many friends ...
By James Revels When COVID-19 arrived last year, the previous administration had no plans to combat it, because they ignored scientific warnings and advice. As a result, the nation struggled to combat this deadly virus. ...
By Jesus Ayala-Candia It’s been over a month President Joe Biden first entered the hallowed halls of the White House, ushering a new era of reforms throughout America. His initial orders included a temporary halt ...
By Robert Storch The failure of local leaders to adopt a comprehensive strategy for implementing long-range urban plans will result in permanent damage to the quality of life in Downtown El Paso and surrounding neighborhoods. ...
By Isabela Baca When talking about teen dating violence, I keep hearing statements like “It’s normal, everyone does it” and “It’s a new generation, don’t be too reserved.” However, I believe it is important to ...
By Sandra Nevárez García One in three! This is the number of youth, throughout the United States, who experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse while in a dating relationship. These abusive relationships often are unseen ...
By JJ Martinez I wish that it were possible to write a proper rebuttal to Ryan James Solis’ essay “The ethics of prisoner vaccination.” As El Paso continues to struggle with COVID-19 and the disparities ...
I feel fortunate to be among the El Pasoans who have received both the COVID-19 vaccines. But the process being used by the city at its vaccination hub near the airport is deeply flawed and ...
By Kaitlyn Urenda-Culpepper Gov. Greg Abbott helped provide emergency medical care for Erika Calderon of McAllen after her 14-year-old son Emilian Sosa was forced to beg for her life in a letter to the governor ...
By David Marcus The 2020 election shattered all previous records as Americans on both sides of the aisle, fulfilling their civic duty, went out and voted in record numbers by the end of Election Day ...
By James Revels February is Black History Month, a time that allows us the opportunity to reflect on the achievements of a significant portion of our population, who entered the American melting pot from the ...
By Susan M. Redford Every day, all 254 Texas counties deliver essential taxpayer services vital to the lives of 29 million Texans. They build and maintain roads and bridges, protect the public’s safety and health, ...
Story by Rocio Gallegos/La Verdad Photographs by Alicia Fernandez Republished with permission. See the original Spanish version of the story here. Every time her petition for asylum in the United States is extended, Yaneth Blanco ...
By David C. Stout This week, our lawmakers in Austin gaveled in another legislative session, a 140-day event certain to be even more unpredictable because of the pandemic. However, counties and cities across Texas can ...
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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 ...