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Commentary
Opinion: After 30 days in ICE detention at Fort Bliss, a Minnesota mother resumes her fight to stay with her U.S. citizen children, including one in the National Guard
After a month in an ICE detention facility, a Minnesota mother of three was released with an ankle monitor as her U.S. citizen son in the National Guard fights to help her gain legal status.
Opinion: To solve El Paso’s drunken driving problem, start with evidence
To meaningfully reduce DWI, El Paso must first better understand the problem.
Opinion: We visited an El Paso ICE detention facility. We don’t recognize our country anymore
Volunteer attorneys and law students describe alarming treatment of people transported from across the country to an El Paso ICE detention facility.
Opinion: When we support the caregiver, we strengthen Texas
Military and veteran caregivers support Texas families and communities every day. Recognizing and supporting their work strengthens veterans, households and the region as a whole.
Opinion: Economic investment, financial education help shape El Paso’s future
Bank of America’s 2025 initiatives in El Paso focused on financial education, workforce development and community partnerships aimed at expanding opportunity and supporting long-term economic growth.
Opinion: Federal job cuts and political division are putting El Paso’s economy at risk
Partisan gridlock in Congress — including votes by Texas senators — has put thousands of El Pasoans at financial risk and underscores the urgent need for bipartisan leadership.
Opinion: As Alamo Drafthouse leaves El Paso, we’re losing more than a movie theater
Alamo Drafthouse was more than a movie theater. It was a communal “empathy machine” for El Paso.
Opinion: We lost Sunset Tury, but El Paso keeps losing pedestrians to car-first street design
The death of Sunset Heights resident Arturo Frias Moreno highlights how speeding, car-centered street design, and gaps in pedestrian infrastructure continue to put people walking in El Paso at risk.
Opinion: A politicized reading list won’t fix Texas’ reading crisis — investing in teachers will
Instead of investing in teachers, funding and evidence-based literacy instruction, Texas is fueling culture-war debates that do nothing to reverse its worsening reading crisis.
Opinion: Honoring El Paso’s Black history means confronting today’s unfinished fight for equality
Black History Month is an opportunity to recognize the essential role Black Americans have played in shaping El Paso’s history, from Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Bliss to civil rights leaders and elected officials.
Opinion: El Paso’s long history of hospitality offers a lesson for U.S. immigration policy
Despite shifting national immigration policies and rhetoric, El Paso demonstrates how humane, community-driven approaches to migration can uphold dignity while revealing the shortcomings of current U.S. border policy.
Opinion: What fewer births and an aging population mean for El Paso’s health care future
Understanding El Paso’s demographic shifts can help leaders better prepare health systems, caregiving services, and family supports to meet the community’s changing needs.
Opinion: Project Jupiter is a generational disaster
Project Jupiter, a massive data center planned for southern New Mexico, has been approved through a rushed and opaque process that obscures its enormous carbon emissions, water use and pollution impacts from the public.
Opinion: Dr. King’s legacy was never comfortable and it was never silent
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy demands moral clarity and action as aggressive ICE tactics from Minnesota to the border raise urgent questions about justice, safety, and democracy.
Opinion: Why a nationwide 10% credit card rate cap could backfire on consumers
While intended to protect consumers, a rigid 10% interest rate cap would weaken credit unions and reduce safe, affordable credit options in underserved communities.
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