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 ...
By Marcos Muñoz On Sept. 6, 1949, Jefferson High School was opened as a response to community demand for a second high school in South-Central El Paso to alleviate overcrowding at Bowie. More than 70 ...
By Grace Meng and Linda Corchado Marisa fled El Salvador in February after sustaining years of violent gender-based abuse and repeated failed attempts to seek protection by the police. Battling symptoms of post-traumatic stress, she ...
By Neal M. Rosendorf Public symbols have political power. The statues that communities erect, the flags communities fly, the names communities inscribe on their buildings, parks, playgrounds, and pools, are never lightly chosen. They are ...
By Samuel Licón Kligman As a child, I was always fascinated by my father’s stories about his upbringing in the Deep South during the 1950s and 1960s. The stories that always grabbed my attention were ...
The day before my dad had a stroke, he described the air as delicious. It was almost dusk and the sky was pale pink. We jogged along the irrigation canals in West El Paso, and ...
By Rick Carlos The author became an El Paso police officer in 1981 and served for six years. He shared a patrol car with another officer, Greg Allen, who today is chief of the El ...
By Diego Carlos I’m a teacher at Coronado High School. I teach world history and U.S. government. I’ve had some profound experiences with police and policing, starting as a child. My father was an El ...
By Jesus Ayala-Candia A plethora of articles invoke the call for immigration reform asking, “How did we get here?” and “What can be done?” Yet, what we should be asking is: Are we even capable ...
At Sunday night’s massive protest against the death of George Floyd, El Paso police used tear gas against attendees, as well as a weapon many in the community had not heard of until now, much ...
By James Revels For the past 34 years, I attempted to shine the light of awareness on the impact of bigotry and racism on the lives of black Americans. Since the 2016 elections, “bigotry surfaced ...
By Rosemary Neill A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. On the upside, it can help make our priorities clearer, relax rigid rules or regulations and give civic leaders the opportunity to be more ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Dust swirls as the particle-board coffin with numbers written on top slides into the grave, one of many in a long row. There are no mourners standing around this grave. No songs ...
By Ruby Montana The dispositional optimist in me tends to believe that most people are inherently good and capable of reason in matters of morality, politics, and especially life and death. However, that optimism has ...
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 ...
By Honora Spicer Boeing Drive is the back alley parallel to Montana Avenue. Montana is the glamour of rapid transit — auto dealerships with balloons, car washes and detail services, El Paso International Airport terminal ...
By Jim Ward My name is Jim Ward. I own a restaurant and I am angry. We know this virus is incredibly contagious and that limiting exposure is the best chance we have to keep ...
By James Revels Lost revenues by small businesses and others can be replaced by grants or loans, but human lives lost cannot. So, the rush to reopen the economy during this continuing pandemic is driven ...
By Xavier Miranda The pandemic has revealed how corporate influence on our education system has sorely failed our students. Rather than relying on the expertise of educators, who best know the individual needs of our ...
By Anneliese Huenneke/El Paso High School Something that is instilled in students from the moment they enter kindergarten is our high school graduation. For some students, this is the only ceremony they will get to ...
Even people who knew little to nothing about statistical analysis a few weeks ago have come to understand the importance of “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 cases. Basically, it means slowing the growth rate of ...
Several weeks ago, when the COVID-19 crisis seemed so far away from home, I walked into Walgreen’s and came to a customer by a shopping cart full of toilet paper. She took me aside and ...
By Dr. Luis Fraga, Dr. Mark Lusk, Dr. Nicholas Natividad and Dylan Corbett The novel coronavirus pandemic is teaching us that who gets sick and who recovers often depends on vulnerability. We often think of ...
By Kathy Staudt El Pasoans have tried to communicate with city officials through emails, but their voices are invisible to the broader public. Alas, the mayor and council representatives rarely answer emails. Civic engagement is ...
As the number of COVID-19 cases approaches 400, evidence is emerging that compliance with strict government mandates and safety suggestions is slowing the spread of the disease in El Paso County. The number of new ...
By Joshua Marin/Special to El Paso Matters Most of us are finding out what people born before 1941 already knew — living through a major, global, historical event is a lot more difficult than it ...
Grupo de Investigación Política y Ciencias de la Salud de El Paso Paseños: estamos en una crisis y necesitamos su ayuda. En las siguientes semanas, es muy posible que ocurra una escasez extrema de recursos ...
By El Paso Health Sciences and Policy Research Group El Pasoans: we are in a crisis and we need your help. In the upcoming weeks, there likely will be an extreme shortage of health-care resources ...
In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...
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CIUDAD JUAREZ — The sounds in the gym are like those you’d hear anywhere. The instructor of the class shouts directions and encouragement and counts reps out loud. The 15 people arranged in a circle ...