NPT Sunday Under the Tree: Sunset, Juarez, and El Paso
The best in commentary, analysis, opinion and essays from the Center of North America. Don't forget to check the NPT home page for news stories, updates and archives.
Features
A Death in Sunset Heights
by Sito Negron
Henry was one of the guys who made this neighborhood what it is. He was an anchor, a presence who was here as long as most can remember, and a guy who was loved by many.
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Land-Sailing, Within Range of El Chuco
by Rich Wright
The wind started to blow. The car sailed fast, knots and not miles per hour, but lots of them. I tried to pull a tack into the wind, and the cart got up on two wheels, and then everything happened at once.
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In Juarez, Children Die
by Alejandra Gomez
These incidents portray the black days we are living in. Children die everyday, but not like this; Alejandro murdered by dozens of gunshots and Christopher by hopelessly taking his life before his mother came home.
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Ruben Salazar, Campechano
by Ken Flynn
Long before his recognition as a Chicano rights advocate during a turbulent time in our history, Ruben was already a hero in El Paso.
Opinion
Byrd on Developing New Communities
by city Rep. Susie Byrd
The schedule and the goals of the subdivision ordinance rewrite, explained in a letter to constituents.
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El Paso Times Editorial Board was Half-Right
by Jaime Abeytia
I realize it’s an editorial piece, but their disappointment should be in the fact that the process wasn’t followed properly, not in a cast of characters that had peripheral influence over the matter at hand.
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News+Paper+Tree=Poli-Ticks
by Kyle Gabbard
More cartoons from the tatooed mind of Kyle.
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El Paso, It Is What It Is, and That's Just Fine
by David Karlsruher
Eventually they'll give up trying to make the rest of us wear khakis and drive "beamers" and retire to their area of town. They'll be happy in their little niche and you'll be happy in yours. And together we'll make up what will always be home, El Paso.
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The Children of El Dorado: Suffering at the Hands of the State?
by James C. Harrington
Imagine what kind of trauma befalls a young child who is rounded up with everyone else and transported en masse to live in Fort Concho national park and then herded off to the city coliseum – all while the state tries to take them away from their mothers.
