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 ...
From the University of Arizona and Tucson Sentinel As the new coronavirus has spread across the globe, so has speculative and deceptive information about its origins, how it infects people and what can be done ...
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 ...
By Gabriela Minjáres and Itzel Ramírez/La Verdad This article was produced by La Verdad, an independent news organization in Ciudad Juarez that is collaborating with El Paso Matters on regional coverage. Rigoberto Tafoya Maqueda, a ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Wednesday evening begins the best-known Jewish holiday, Passover, commemorating the Israelite redemption from Egyptian slavery 3,332 years ago. The festival’s traditions, rituals and recipes are so unique that for thousands of ...
By Margaret Brown Vega and Nathan Craig The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. This week communities across the United States, to better ensure public health, continued to pressure local, state, and federal officials ...
By René Kladzyk/Special to El Paso Matters The effects of COVID-19 related restrictions have been acutely felt by members of El Paso’s music community. With music venue closures and tours and concerts canceled, local musicians ...
By Alain Stephens/The Trace You did it. You just joined the ranks of the millions of Americans who own a gun. I’ve had years of experience handling firearms — as part of my work in the ...
By Samantha Vanderslott, University of Oxford The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled a dangerous “infodemic”. Fake news spreads faster and more easily today through the internet, social media and ...
By Kelley ShannonExecutive DirectorFreedom of Information Foundation of Texas Whatever our political views, certainly we can agree we have the right to know how government is conducting business. How are taxpayer dollars spent? Who is ...
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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 ...