By David C. Stout When we started the Census 2020 journey more than two years ago, I truly believed the battle for a complete count would be against apathy and against logistics. We have certainly ...
El Paso firefighters and police issued more citations for violations of pandemic health orders over the Labor Day weekend than they had over the three previous months combined, officials said Thursday. From Sept. 4-7, “we ...
Smuggling attempts at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic include more than drugs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at international bridges are also finding a popular contraband comfort food stashed in vehicles — ...
A state attorney general ruling will allow the city of El Paso to withhold the names of facilities where COVID-19 outbreaks. A Houston attorney with extensive experience in transparency laws criticized the ruling. “The AG ...
As the El Paso City Council remains divided on whether to identify facilities where there have been COVID-19 outbreaks, state agencies in Texas and around the country are beginning to share the information regularly. Opponents ...
On May 29, the managers of two Central El Paso bars were each given a pair of citations for violating El Paso’s pandemic health orders requiring social distancing and limiting bar capacity. That brought the ...
This story has been updated with information from a letter sent Tuesday to Eugene Forti’s family from the Veterans Land Board. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has ordered a leadership shake-up at the Ambrosio ...
Eugene Forti survived repeated combat missions in World War II riding in a glass bubble of a ball turret, manning the anti-aircraft gun of a U.S. bomber. And it appeared that, at age 96, he ...
A looming furlough of thousands of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees could delay naturalizations for new citizens and prevent them from voting in the November election. “Well right now I’m supposedly one step away ...
By David C. Stout The pandemic has forced many quick actions. In the best cases, local leaders have had at least a moment to reflect, converting reactions into deliberate responses. One of the most pressing ...
This story has been updated with new data and comments. The Texas Department of State Health Services failed to notify El Paso health officials of almost 900 positive COVID-19 cases since late June, part of ...
Weeks of debating whether to release information that would identify locations of COVID-19 outbreaks has left the City Council increasingly divided while cases of the deadly virus continue to spread throughout the community. Attempts to ...
El Paso taxpayers have paid at least $1.7 million since 2016 to defend police officers and the city in four lawsuits stemming from the use of deadly force against people in mental health crisis, according ...
Ashley Lemell has been working with the El Paso Census Bureau office to ensure that El Pasoans experiencing homelessness will be counted in the 2020 census. Lemell, with the El Paso Coalition for the Homeless, ...
Note: This column has been updated to include information that the state of Texas on Monday began providing information on COVID-19 infections at nursing homes, assisted living centers and state-run mental health facilities. Two things ...
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-evaluate whether El Paso is violating clean air standards, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled. The decision stems from a federal lawsuit that challenged the EPA’s designation ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is seeking videos and other documents related to a June 25 crash that killed seven people in a car fleeing Border Patrol agents. “For too long, the Border ...
The city of El Paso will continue to withhold the names of facilities and businesses that have clusters of COVID-19 positive cases after Mayor Dee Margo broke a 4-4 tie vote at City Council on ...
For the second consecutive week, El Paso County reported more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases. Announced COVID-19 deaths reached a new weekly high. Cases requiring hospitalization and intensive care continue to hit record new levels. ...
Thomas “T.J.” Johnson’s African-American family moved to El Paso from the Midwest in the 1980s, when he was a teenager. He graduated from Andress High School and spent two years at UTEP in the early ...
El Paso County reported 233 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a new single-day high that indicates a deepening public health crisis. The number of people hospitalized with effects of the novel coronavirus also is nearing ...
El Paso had one of its worst weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with a high in reported deaths, hospitalizations beginning to rise after more than two weeks of decline, and the number of new ...
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 ...
Hundreds of protesters marched through Downtown El Paso Wednesday evening in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, denouncing police brutality and calling for the defunding of the El Paso Police Department. A second smaller demonstration, located ...
El Paso City Council members engaged in a heated debate Monday over police reform and the use of force by police officers at a May 31 protest. Some council members and El Paso residents suggested ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Our weekly update on COVID-19 data is below, but first we want to offer some concerns about the data as it is released by the city government. On Thursday, the city announced 197 new COVID-19 ...
A crowd of more than 1,000 marched from Memorial Park to the El Paso police headquarters on Sunday in a mostly peaceful but sometimes tense protest of the deaths of George Floyd and other African-Americans ...
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 ...
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By Peter Svarzbein My parents Leonardo and Sylvia were immigrants to the United States. When it came time to raise a family and establish roots they settled in El Paso. My parents were welcomed into ...