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Editor’s note: Ryan James Solis will contribute essays to El Paso Matters that will be published each Thursday By Ryan James Solis Jan. 6, 2021, will be remembered through it’s images. Portraits from a nation ...
As El Paso children prepare to head back to classrooms for the first time in months, they account for one of every five new COVID-19 infections so far this month, the highest proportion since the ...
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 ...
The number of COVID-19 infections shot up sharply in El Paso County last week, likely the leading edge of a storm of new cases triggered in large part by holiday gatherings. The number of infections ...
By the Rt. Rev. Michael Hunn Part of my job as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, a diocese of the Episcopal Church consisting of the state of New Mexico and Far ...
By Rep. Joe Moody Yesterday saw the very foundations of our representative government shaken by naked fascism. Let me first say what needs to be echoed by every patriot in a position of public trust: ...
In 2020, almost 99,000 El Paso County residents — 12% of our population — tested positive for COVID-19. More than 2,000 of our family members and neighbors died because of the novel coronavirus. Fall was ...
Climate change continued to reshape El Paso in 2020, with the Sun City recording its second-highest average annual temperature in records that date back to 1887. El Paso’s three hottest years on record have occurred ...
By Rabbi Stephen Leon There is a huge secret which lives in our unique city of El Paso. Most of our residents are unaware of it and yet this secret has had an impact on ...
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Editor’s note: This story has been edited to reflect updated testing numbers. El Paso will head into 2021 with continuing high levels of COVID-19 infections, with much risk ahead until vaccines become widely available in ...
By Minerva Morales Minerva Morales’ son, Daniel Morales, was an El Paso nurse who died of COVID-19 on Aug. 4, 17 days before his 40th birthday. He left behind a wife and four children, and ...
Nine of every 10 El Pasoans who have died of COVID-19 are Hispanic, a disproportionately high rate even for a predominantly Hispanic community. From the earliest days of the pandemic, Blacks and Hispanics have borne ...
By David C. Stout As our nation transitions, we need to pursue ways for Americans to become united again. An El Paso history lesson provides a way forward for the healing our nation needs. Marcelino ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 trends this past week were the most encouraging our community has seen since this summer. The most important metrics — new cases, hospitalizations and deaths — all showed declines. The key now ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Often in conversation nowadays people share with me that — although they continue following social distancing guidelines and all — they are emotionally done with this virus. The constant disruption of ...
We have focused on health numbers in our weekly COVID-19 data reports, but this week we want to turn our attention to economic indicators. After a sharp loss of jobs at the outset of the ...
El Paso County’s number of new COVID-19 cases declined for a third straight week, and the number of hospitalizations has consistently stayed below 1,000 for the first time since the beginning of November. The trend ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg A friend confided in me that Thanksgiving this year will be dreadful as he won’t be celebrating with family back east. I hear this sentiment from so many here in town ...
By Anna Aleman The world’s oldest and largest mega event, the World Expo, will be hosted for the first time in the Middle East. El Paso is one of 28 cities across the United States ...
By Peter Svarzbein Note: City Rep. Peter Svarzbein originally made this statement at the opening of Monday’s City Council work session. As COVID-19 spread like wildfire across American cities, I have researched what others have ...
By Mark Lusk The pandemic that is raging through the United States is killing nearly one American a minute. With no unified or coherent public health response at the national level, we can expect that ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso County is down for a second consecutive week, but we’re still averaging more than 1,000 new cases a day, an alarming rate of spread in a ...
By Joe Moody With COVID-19 still gripping El Paso, our families have to make a difficult choice this Thanksgiving. It wasn’t an easy one for my family, but in the end, we’ve chosen to stay ...
By Michelle Alejandra Booth Your co-worker’s cousin, your cousin, then you – all with COVID. Whateight8 months ago started as a “New York problem” and a third degree of separation knowing someone who knows someone ...
By Robert Storch To make Downtown El Paso a truly vibrant, modern and livable urban environment, the interstate highway and transcontinental railroad must be moved out of the city center. The Texas Department of Transportation ...
By Graciela Blandon For years, El Paso County’s Democratic Party has existed as a shadowy figure to the average voter. With limited digital and field teams, Democratic Party organizing has happened mostly within its own ...
The number of new COVID-19 cases in El Paso this past week dropped for the first time in two months but remains alarmingly high. The coming days and weeks will be among the most painful ...
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