Supporting small businesses is more critical this year than ever before, as so many local vendors have struggled to survive through the pandemic. Some El Pasoans are opting to shop local this holiday season, seeking ...
El Paso’s low-income neighborhoods bore a disproportionate share of El Paso’s fall COVID-19 explosion, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. Advocates for low-income families said a variety of challenges face those areas, including many essential ...
Four El Paso bars and restaurants had their liquor licenses suspended by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission last week for violating COVID-19 health orders. The actions were part of an enforcement surge by TABC as ...
The owner of a West El Paso bar/restaurant said state officials suspended his liquor license for 30 days on Thursday after a bartender briefly lowered her mask to talk to a customer. The suspension of ...
Microsoft is providing money and technology support to news organizations in El Paso-Ciudad Juárez and three other communities as part of an effort to bolster journalism, the company announced Wednesday. “The first focus area of ...
It’s been more than six months since the U.S.-Mexico border closed to all but essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19. The disruption of lives and livelihoods has been widespread in El Paso and ...
El Paso Matters is seeking a higher education reporter to join our diverse and innovative team of journalists covering the El Paso border region. This reporting position — a one-year position that we hope to ...
El Paso Matters is seeking a revenue development director to support our mission of providing in-depth and investigative journalism to enhance civic engagement in a dynamic multi-cultural, binational community. The revenue development director will help ...
Smuggling attempts at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic include more than drugs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at international bridges are also finding a popular contraband comfort food stashed in vehicles — ...
As the El Paso City Council remains divided on whether to identify facilities where there have been COVID-19 outbreaks, state agencies in Texas and around the country are beginning to share the information regularly. Opponents ...
Businesses on both sides of the Paso del Norte Bridge, reliant on foot traffic of border-crossers who stop and shop, have been hit hard by the border shutdown. The longer the border remains closed, the ...
Fashion can be a potent and visible form of political resistance. Coded with meaning, our clothing communicates social status, cultural belonging, and is deeply tied to personal identity. For Juárez fashion cooperative Ni En More, ...
By Susan Goodell El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank has undertaken the task of feeding every single hungry El Pasoan, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March. As the weeks went on, it became ...
Under the CARES Act, Texas put a moratorium on evictions through May 14. That means it was illegal for landlords to evict tenants who couldn’t make rent for the month. Here in El Paso, this ...
By William Serrata, Ph.D. Like community colleges across the country, El Paso Community College creates value both for students and the community. Community colleges play a vital role in helping students develop the skills necessary ...
By Rosemary Marin Two weeks ago, the unemployment rate in El Paso hit a historic high of 15 percent. Since COVID-19 began in our region, more than 50,000 people have filed unemployment claims, while hundreds ...
A nursery melody plays throughout the halls of Providence Memorial Hospital whenever a baby is born. It can be a jarring reminder at the bedside of a sick or dying patient: life is still happening, ...
Three journalists with ties to El Paso have joined the El Paso Matters team, CEO Robert Moore said. Elida S. Perez, René Kladzyk and Claudia Tristán were hired after a search that drew more than ...
The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank hopes to continue a pilot program to deliver thousands of emergency food boxes to vulnerable families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May, more than 2,000 food boxes have ...
El Paso’s sports scene, as in other cities across the United States, has taken a backseat because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The El Paso Locomotive, though, is getting ready to get back in action. It’s ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Two college students have joined the El Paso Matters team for the summer to enhance our data efforts and build our audience engagement. Michaela Román Michaela Román is a UTEP graduate now pursuing a masters ...
El Paso journalist Robert Moore is among a group of investigative reporters who received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award on Thursday for a series of stories on the U.S. Border Patrol. Moore, the founder ...
An El Paso black-owned business directory site will be re-launching on Juneteenth (June 19), and Black El Paso Voice is seeking black El Paso business owners, artists, churches, and organizations to submit a free directory ...
As testing increases in El Paso, contact tracing is the next critical step to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the border, those close contacts can include relatives, friends and coworkers in two countries. “This ...
El Paso Matters is seeking several full-time journalists to help tell the important stories of a major binational community. Ideal candidates understand the uniqueness of the U.S.-Mexico border region. Bilingual English-Spanish speakers preferred. Multimedia, data ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling out a series of programs to support food producers whose operations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but small food producers may be falling through the cracks. ...
Frustrated with a lack of action from government officials to provide assistance to immigrant farmworkers and undocumented familes that serve El Paso, three organizations have started a GoFundMe to make an immediate difference. Agricultural workers ...
I just returned from taking an airplane trip to another state in America and made it back to El Paso safely. Go ahead and make your snarky comments about how unsafe I was for flying ...
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By David C. Stout The pandemic has taken so much from us — jobs, our way of life, our health, and for far too many, relatives and loved ones have been lost here in El ...