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 ...
It took a 19-hour road trip earlier this week for Maria Aldama to cover the distance between Kansas City to El Paso. And for that, she was rewarded with a three-minute embrace with a mother ...
U.S. Catholic bishops voted on Friday for a proposal to create guidelines for communion, the first step in an effort that could bar the sacrament to President Joe Biden and other Catholic elected officials who ...
Leaders in El Paso’s LGBTQ+ community convened on Thursday for a discussion on the state of the local queer community, hosted by El Paso Matters. Coinciding with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the conversation covered several wide-ranging ...
Wendy Sandoval grabs pliers and tinkers with metal parts to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm in the opening scene of “Disrupted Borders,” a new documentary about a remarkable friendship between two El ...
Join us for an online event in celebration of Pride Month, where we’ll discuss El Paso’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community. Panelists Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Adri Perez, and Diamond Briseño come from wide-ranging corners of El Paso’s ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad Heriberto Pérez Lara sat on the bed in his home in Juárez, meticulously lacing his brown dress shoes. His mother, Anayensi Lara Ruíz, smoothed an ironed white ...
Emiliana “Emily” Edwards wants El Pasoans to know that she’s a normal kid. The 14-year-old middle schooler loves singing, watching anime, and playing games on her computer. But unlike her cisgender classmates, Emily’s identity as ...
Mujer aún desconocida alrededor de 13 años localizada el 10-9-95 Lote Bravo. Carla Berges can’t find an explanation for the words she embroidered on a handkerchief-sized cloth panel to memorialize a victim of femicide in ...
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 ...
On a clear Sunday morning, sisters Josey and Christina “Teeny” Pickett met up at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza to embark on a strenuous masked run. Although the sisters live on opposite sides of El Paso, training ...
Starting this fall, El Pasoans and other residents of the 915 area code will have to dial a 10-digit number — rather than seven digits — to make local calls. The change is needed to ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Liberty is the core of American life. Patrick Henry’s dramatic speech at the Second Virginia Convention which concluded with, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” is widely credited for setting ...
By Claudia Hernández/Borderless Magazine On a warm February afternoon, Susana Coreas stands outside the door of Casa de Colores in Ciudad Juárez holding a phone in one hand and a 50 peso bill in the ...
An El Paso rabbi’s campaign to make people aware of the importance of charity was on display Wednesday in the Texas House of Representatives. Plastic yellow arks — charity boxes provided by the Chabad Lubavitch ...
A unique binational news collaboration will begin publishing stories this week about significant issues facing El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. The partnership, called Puente News Collaborative, will begin with a two-week series of stories that ...
For the refugees who have spent months (or even years) stuck waiting in Mexico in the dangerous Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, the art-covered walls of El Paso’s Casa del Refugiado are a colorful and ...
Each February, El Pasoans participate in Black History Month events like parades, art events, and much more. But many don’t know the long and rich history of El Paso’s African American community. From Buffalo Soldiers ...
Some El Paso librarians have been reinstated to their jobs, two days after the city sparked public outrage by sending them layoff notices. Sue Barnum, a longtime librarian who received a layoff notice on Wednesday ...
For the first time in nearly half a century, El Paso has a new private skyscraper, WestStar Tower. The behemoth structure forged almost entirely of aqua glass and steel stands at around 280 feet from ...
The city of El Paso on Wednesday informed 75 furloughed employees — mostly library workers — that their jobs are being permanently eliminated. Officials said the employees would be offered other jobs in the city, ...
Every time Gina Ramos looks at her teddy bear, she remembers her father. The bear is a deep indigo color, made from one of her father’s shirts. “It’s a blue shirt I had given him ...
The Supreme Court on Monday gave El Paso’s Tigua Indians at least a small victory in their long-running gambling fight with the state of Texas, asking the Justice Department for the first time to weigh ...
Whenever Maria Garcia arrives in El Paso after being away for a while, she notices the change in her body immediately. Her neck and shoulders “make peace with each other” when she inhales the desert ...
The question “ARE YOU OK?” sprawls across the back of an ink-drawn cicada in the new show opening at Galería Lincoln this week. It’s a fitting question for artists, nearly a year into the global ...
Human remains were discovered this week as crews worked on a water and wastewater project in Sunset Heights, triggering an archaeological investigation that put the work on hold. The remains were found Tuesday near the ...
I didn’t go to a single movie theater in 2020. Not one. Partially, this is one of the costs of being a college student with no car and no theaters next to campus, but more ...
Remove your shoes, open the door, ring the bell three times and walk toward the altar to pray. That’s what Hindu devotees do every time they enter the Southwest Hindu Temple on El Paso’s West ...
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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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 ...