Like so many others I am recording this period in our history. Hopefully our great grand-children will learn from this, appreciate our efforts to cope during a worldwide pandemic. El Paso Fantasy As a Registered Nurse I actually worked 12 hour shifts at a Veterans Home during an epidemic of Norovirus. It’s not a killer […]
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My Red Fez review of Christina Quinn’s Looking Up the Down Spout
Even in the Absence of Proximity-my review of Looking Up the Down Spout by Christina Quinn Looking Up the Down Spout by Christina Quinn Poetic Justice Books & Art (Port Saint Lucie, FL) Christina Quinn is a visual artist and poet, born and reared in England, who has lived many years in the Coachella Valley […]
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El Paso Community College District, Dr. William Serrata’s Virtual Town Hall & A Conversation with the Cabinet, May 13, 2020
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the El Paso Community College District hosted a Town Hall with President Dr. William Serrata which focused on how the district has responded to teaching and learning during this Covid-19 Pandemic. The one-hour and seven-minute town hall can be seen in its entirety at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxnlDH4DPc For further information contact James […]
Posted inThe Latino Life
WHAT DA F*CK
About two weeks ago during a Virtual City Council a few words fell out of City Council Representative Henry Rivera mouth berating El Pasoan Sito Negron. Im not gonna go over what was said it’s been spread all over hells half acre anyway. Sito Negron who happens to be a part of State Senator Rodriguez […]
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AMLO, Trump and Fast and Furious
On Monday, April 11, Mexican foreign relations minister, Marcelo Ebrard posted on Twitter a clarification on the diplomatic note the Mexican government had sent to the U.S. Embassy recently. The diplomatic note asks the U.S. government for information and documents pertaining to the ATF Fast and Furious operation that allowed U.S. guns to enter México […]
Posted inArt, Chicano, Community News, Culture, Mexican-American, Mexico
Juan Sandoval: A Passion for Collecting
Art Collector Juan Sandoval (Center) photographed with Alejandro Ismael Murat Hinojosa, the Governor of Oaxaca (Left) and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (Right), in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2019. Photograph Courtesy of Juan Sandoval. The following article written several years ago, offers a vignette of one of the most important art collectors of our time […]
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As a matter of Introductions
“Words Matter” – that will be the title of my new WordPress page when I get it up and running. Who am I, you might ask? Well, that is a legitimate question and deserves a legitimate answer. However, comma, having spent more than seven decades trying to be “me” and define exactly who I am, […]
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Unemployment Numbers for April 2020
Today, there is an estimated 20.5 million Americans without a job. It is an estimate because the true numbers of unemployed is unknown. About two weeks ago in “The Pending Unemployment Catastrophe” (link) we looked the unemployment rates from the Great Depression onward. Although the unemployment numbers released for April are not the 20%, I […]
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Media Release: El Paso advocates, community organizations form coalition and request urgent support from City, County to provide critical relief to those impacted by COVID-19 crisis
MEDIA RELEASE, MAY 10, 2020 Contact: Hannah Hollandbyrd, hhollandbyrd@hopeborder.org El Paso advocates, community organizations form coalition and request urgent support from City, County to provide critical relief to those impacted by COVID-19 crisis EL PASO, TX – A coalition of service organizations and community advocates are asking City and County leaders in El Paso to […]
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The Plandemic Shysters
The world is full of shysters always looking for a quick buck to make. The why let a good pandemic go to waste is what is driving today’s shysters. Unless you are literally living under a pile of rocks then you have seen the many videos and ads for masks and quick “remedies” for the […]