Opinion

Google in our face
by David Crowder

I wouldn’t want some lunatic who’s pulling up my house on a Google map to think I don’t care about my front yard.

Posted on September 6, 2008  •  read more »

News

Public Corruption 101
by NPT Staff

Nine people have pleaded guilty, and one has been indicted. Get up to date on the FBI public corruption investigation, with a summary of events and links to source documents. Also included are archives and links to public corruption cases from around the country for perspective.

Posted on September 5, 2008  •  read more »

Features

In the News: It's murder
by NPT Staff

Murder suspects, drug wars (what's new?), songs and BIG football games. Around the region, nation and world, El Paso and El Pasoans are In the News.

Posted on September 5, 2008  •  read more »

The Border Wall Chronicles
by Kent Paterson, FronteraNorte Sur

Standing in Mexico, Father Peter Hinde, who is a U.S. military veteran, was audibly distraught by the new wall, which sits under the gaze of the Christ statue on nearby Mount Cristo Rey.

Posted on September 6, 2008  •  read more »

Culture

El Paso, not so self-contained or clichéd as people would have us expect
by Christine Granados

In "Willows Village" we view a fictional account of one man's upward climb toward the American dream. But more importantly, what Gilb does is use the setting of El Paso in a new way, as a place of home, and one that is not a stereotype of the cholo lifestyle, the undocumented workers' life or families living magical childlike poverty.

Posted on September 5, 2008  •  read more »

Features

Home, sweet school
by Alejandra Gomez

Jose Yañez and Xotchitl Sepulveda have gone from a community library in their living room to a community school, working hard to provide education to adult residents of their Colonia Salvarcar, near Zaragoza.

Posted on September 4, 2008  •  read more »

Air, Arsenic and Asarco
by Kent Paterson

In the growing, cross-border Paso del Norte region, environmental challenges run a broad gamut from air pollution to clean water to toxic waste clean-up and more.

Posted on September 4, 2008  •  read more »

News

Ciudad Juarez NGOs Demand Mexican Army Leave Town
by Kent Paterson

Ostensibly deployed to control the warring gangs that have further bloodied an already violence-wracked city, the Mexican army is under increasing criticism for its alleged conduct on the border and in other parts of the state of Chihuahua.

Posted on September 3, 2008  •  read more »

Features

A Plan for Juarez
by Alejandra Gomez

Plan Estrategico, a non-partisan association independent from the government, is convinced that the majority of politicians in Juarez act in terms of getting votes and not in favor of changing the city.

Posted on September 2, 2008  •  read more »

Opinion

Not just another pretty face
by David Karlsruher

Frankly, Gov. Palin isn't too different from many Americans. Maybe that's why everybody is so up in arms about her. Our politicians have turned into icons instead of leaders plucked from the American public and put into service of their fellow citizen.

Posted on September 4, 2008  •  read more »