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 ...
One morning two years ago, I was at the Montana Avenue Border Patrol station and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention complex, in the courtroom of Immigration Judge William Abbott. He reviews evidence there from immigrants ...
El Paso has settled into a “new normal” with COVID-19, with a few hundred new cases each week, hospitalizations inching downward and a slowing rate of vaccinations. Because of this, we’re going to suspend our ...
El Paso has reached perhaps its most important milestone in the fight against COVID-19, with new COVID-19 infections falling below 500 in a week for the first time since June 2020. The number of COVID-19 ...
The census has completed its survey, and the results are in. The winners are Texas, Florida, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, and North Carolina – all of whom picked up one congressional seat (except for Texas, which ...
The number of new COVID-19 infections and cases requiring hospital treatment in El Paso dropped in the past week to levels not seen in seven months. However, the number of El Pasoans getting vaccinated against ...
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 ...
Almost 60% of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But getting shots into the arms of people not yet vaccinated will grow increasingly difficult. Even as vaccines ...
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 ...
More than half of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and a third are fully vaccinated. Still, the number of new infections has been stuck at a high ...
At home this past weekend, I had the pleasure of streaming “Godzilla vs. Kong,” but the experience was far from pleasurable. There are no spoilers here, and this is not a movie review, but an ...
This past week proved that El Paso has not escaped the COVID-19 crisis. The number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths increased over the past week, even as more El Pasoans were vaccinated against the ...
From the outside looking in, something is quite off in the economics of higher education. With some universities passing a year mark conducting classes partially or fully online, one would expect some form of a ...
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 ...
El Paso will receive its largest shipment ever of first dose COVID-19 vaccines this week. The increase in vaccine availability comes as new infections continue to be near the lowest levels in months, though still ...
Observing social media trends on César Chávez Day this year, I noticed how seldom Chávez is remembered and celebrated nationally. As a representative of the younger generations, I’m afraid to say that this trend is ...
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 ...
El Paso continues its encouraging COVID-19 trends, with new cases, hospitalizations and deaths all in decline. On Saturday, El Paso reported 88 new COVID-19 infections, the first time we’ve been below 100 new daily cases ...
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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 ...