Say you’ve got symptoms. Chills. Fever. Muscle aches. Are you going to get tested? The word on the street is
Category: Quarantine
La Feria on Avenida Juarez
There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus
How to Live in El Paso – Franklin Mountains State Park
The pandemic made some winners. Amazon. Best Buy. FedEx, and UPS. Locally, Crazy Cat. People wondered whatever happened to that
Secrets of Horse Trading
I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is
How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?
Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?
Words and Their Meanings
El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against
Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting
Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring
A Failure of Government
Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is
Pearl Clutching as a Political Strategy
The old. The sick. And some other group, harder to define. Maybe you’re part of that other group. Maybe you’re
The Covid Economy
You can catch the Covid twice, but it’s not likely. There have been three recorded cases, one in Hong Kong,
Xavier Miranda on School Reopenings
*The following statement is being submitted to Chief Academics Officer Tamekia Brown of EPISD, who will host a live chat,
Living With Covid
Things are different now. If you get the Covid, you’re going to kill someone you love. Your grandmother. Your father.
Flattening the Curve
Expectations drive the economy. Economists measure consumer confidence. The futures markets are self-fulfilling prophecies, to a degree. Politicians know that.
Viral Load
Some viruses are so strong, and they reproduce so rapidly in the human body, that just a little dose of
Power Cruise
Right now, West Texas Intermediate is going for $14.16 a barrel. A year ago, it was almost $62. So why
What About Open El Paso?
I’m a little curious about the motivations of the Open El Paso advocates. Do their home lives suck? Maybe they
“There are things more important than living.”
Purple flowers are taking over my backyard. They’ve claimed a solid half of one of the raised beds, and they’re