As El Paso child care providers struggle to restore services in a reopening economy, they’ve faced an unexpected source of competition for workers — the Fort Bliss emergency shelter for migrant children. Local non-profit providers ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Shannon Ivey grew up alongside the pecan orchards on his family’s farm. Now 41, the fourth-generation pecan farmer recently walked under the shade of the nearly 50 year-old trees planted in the ...
The Newman 6 project will have its day in court. An administrative law judge ruled Thursday that the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, N.M., can move forward to challenge the state of ...
For four decades, the Rev. Ed Roden-Lucero has influenced El Paso far beyond the walls of the parishes he pastored. He has been a key part of efforts to bring water and sewer services to ...
By David Crowder/El Paso Inc. Texas chambers of commerce and business leaders around the state, including some of the biggest companies in El Paso, are calling on Congress to establish a path to citizenship for ...
Tens of thousands of El Paso homeowners will be looking at huge property tax increases this year if local governments don’t make substantial reductions in the current rates. Homeowners are caught in a pandemic vise ...
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 ...
El Paso Electric’s goal of building a natural gas power plant on the city’s Northeast side is facing several hurdles that could delay or even derail the project. The proposed facility, called Newman 6, would ...
When Miguel Venegas graduated from UTEP in December 2020 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he knew he was entering a job market as the world was grappling with a world-wide pandemic. But he was ...
Veteran border journalist Julián Aguilar is joining El Paso Matters as its first editor. Aguilar, an El Paso native and graduate of Burges High School, has covered border issues for the Texas Tribune since 2010. ...
Victoria Rossi — who has experience as a journalist, immigration paralegal and human rights researcher — will join El Paso Matters in June to report on the status of women in our area. The new ...
Despite the windy Saturday morning, farmworkers waited outside the El Paso County Courthouse entrance to receive their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. El Paso-area farmworkers have not been prioritized to receive immunizations by ...
After months of waiting for an appointment and a 45 minute bus ride, Verenice De La Mora received the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine at the Border Agricultural Workers Center on March 12. “I was ...
For a young El Paso couple, their dream business venture quickly turned into a nightmare after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But after making some adjustments to how they do business and getting some help from ...
By JC Navarrete/KVIA-ABC 7 The area once referred to as the “Golden Horseshoe” district in downtown El Paso is now marred by uncertainty brought on by policies meant to slow the spread of the pandemic. ...
By Sara Sanchez/El Paso Inc. Here on the U.S.-Mexico border, El Paso’s informal economy, made up of workers who cross to the United States every day to do everything from cut lawns to work in ...
A year after the U.S. border was closed to all non-essential travel, the pandemic has underscored an informal economy that many fronterizos prefer not to talk about even as they struggle to adapt to a ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times Ricardo Samaniego keeps a cartoon on his desk of four people in a sinking boat. Two are frantically scooping out buckets of water on one side, while the other two kick ...
Tucked away in a red-bricked nook in Boston stands one of my favorite coffee shops. Well, stood. Traveling in the heartland of Boston last September, it was a shock to notice that my once favorite ...
As members of the Medina family walk through their shuttered auto body shop in Central El Paso, the memories come flooding back. For 41 years, the Medina family owned and operated Superior Body and Paint ...
Finding the perfect home can be quite a challenge. Add a pandemic into the mix and it might become a series of twists, turns or the perfect opportunity thanks to low interest rates. According to ...
El Paso’s average weekly wage increased sharply as COVID-19 became entrenched and thousands of workers lost jobs, new federal data shows. Normally, a spike in average wages would be cause for celebration, but that’s not ...
For almost 30 years, El Paso has not had a dedicated reporter to the topic of higher education. This means there has been an accumulating gray area as to what higher education means for El ...
Arturo Mireles lost his job at a call center when COVID-19 hit El Paso. He received an eviction notice in December and by Jan. 29, Mireles was homeless. “They came with the troopers, the constables, ...
Three college students have joined the El Paso Matters team for the next several months to help tell the story of the El Paso region. Two of the students are from UTEP and one is ...
A coalition of Texas business and higher education institutions is supporting permanent legal protections for so-called Dreamers, people brought to the country as children without proper documents. But the proposal stops short of providing a ...
The Inupiaq people of Wales, Alaska, have more than 120 words to describe ice. Located just below the Arctic Circle, tribal communities in the Bering Straits region are well-acquainted with frozen conditions. Yet among the ...
Desirae Manzanares, who has worked in El Paso’s business, government and education sectors, is joining El Paso Matters as revenue development director. She will play a key role in building a sustainable business model for ...
El Paso Matters is hiring a managing editor and a reporter to expand coverage of our region. The managing editor will oversee day-to-day news operations and assist CEO Robert Moore in developing strategic plans to ...
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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 ...