By Brian Antonio Sieve, Metropolitan Community Church, August 3, 2019 I moved to Juarez-El Paso June 1, 2019 to be pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of El Paso (MCC). MCC EL Paso is part of a global denomination founded in 1968 to be the first safe churches for LGBTQ+ folks. Our church here in El […]
Posted inPolitics
Bannon Proves Americans Don’t Care About Nationalism
Close the borders! Build a wall! Americans want to isolate themselves in a walled in country was what Donald Trump and cohorts shouted. But last week’s arrest of Steve Bannon and others who raised $25 million from American “patriots” has proven that real Americans want an open America where diversification is the face of the […]
Posted inAugust 3rd Anniversary
ABOUT “EL PASO STRONG MASETA”
By Corinne Chacón In the hours and days after the tragic assault on El Paso which took place at the Cielo Vista Walmart on August 3, 2019, I grappled, like so many others, with a swarm of emotions. My feelings included shock, intense sadness, a fury at the murderous hatred directed at my gente, and, […]
Posted inVal Verde Neighborhood
The Delta Welcome Center, For Senior Citizens Who Used Los Hilos de Plata Senior Center, It’s Now a Matter of Life or Death
By Miguel Juárez, PhD Updated August 28, 2020. The Val Verde neighborhood is a historical community south of the Medical Center of the Americas, and north of Delta Avenue in El Paso, Texas. The neighborhood is north of the city’s water treatment plant and east of the El Paso County Coliseum. When President Donald Trump […]
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My August 3, 2019
By Lisa Maria Chavira On August 3, 2019, I was home at my apartment in Sunset Heights, El Paso. After the awful news broke, I, like many others, read rumors of multiple shooters at multiple locations near the Cielo Vista area. The first thing I did was contact my loved ones. Both my parents and […]
Posted inOpinion
The Progressive Battle for Mayor
El Paso progressives are battling among themselves for the mayoral race. On one corner you have Verónica Carbajal and on the other you have Carlos Gallinar. Carbajal and Gallinar are two of the six candidates on the ballot for the November 3rd election. The other mayoral candidates are incumbent Dee Margo, Oscar Leeser, Dino Martinez […]
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Russia, Trump and Collusion
Donald Trump has spent his presidency arguing that Russian collusion was a hoax. On August 18, 2020, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its final 966-page report on Russian active measures in the 2016 election. It did not exonerate Donald Trump. Instead, the bipartisan report added more details to Russia’s interference of the 2016 elections. Two […]
Posted inBorder
Massive street mural completed on U.S.-Mexico border
“DEFUND THE WALL, FUND OUR FUTURE” New grassroots effort prioritizes needs of border residents over political border wall project PHOTOS & VIDEO HERE Laredo, TX – More than 100 masked volunteers took to the streets of Laredo over the weekend to send a powerful message to Washington DC: “Defund The Wall” and instead “Fund Our […]
Posted inEl Paso, Reimagine I-10, Transportation, Uptown
Opinion Editorial: “Uptown” and the Re-imagine I-10 Project at the City Plan Commission Meeting
El Paso City Manager Tomás González has instructed his staff to refer and rebrand everything north of downtown El Paso as “Uptown.” Is González referring to “Uptown,” a neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, or to the new name for everything north of downtown El Paso? Before anyone states that these statements are conspiracy theories or marketing […]