Cindy Ramirez

3 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

Early voting is here! Your vote helps shape the future of local schools—from budgets to classroom quality. 📚✏️ Use our voter guide to learn about candidates for EPISD, SISD, and EPCC school boards. 👉 Read the voter guide U.S. District Judge David Briones was blunt with attorneys representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after a 90-minute hearing Wednesday on whether a couple from Venezuela should remain in their custody in El Paso.

3 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

Early voting is here! Your vote helps shape the future of local schools—from budgets to classroom quality. 📚✏️ Use our voter guide to learn about candidates for EPISD, SISD, and EPCC school boards. 👉 Read the voter guide A couple who fled Venezuela in 2022 and were paroled into the United States were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at El Paso International Airport last week – after three judges had found they should not be held.

1 month ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

It may be a little-heard-of election, but the candidates on the May 3 ballot will shape education in the region for years to come as school districts face budget deficits that have led to layoffs, school closures and program cuts. The uniform election in El Paso this year features trustee races in the El Paso and Socorro independent school districts, as well as El Paso Community College. Two smaller school districts – San Elizario and Anthony – also have trustee races in this election.

1 month ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

Wilson Alexander Juárez Hernández died twice – his heart stopping for about five minutes in an ambulance and later for eight minutes in a hospital emergency room. He was brought back to life each time. He sometimes questions if he’d be better off dead. The past two years, he’s had to relearn how to eat, walk and talk. His arms and legs don’t work like they used to. His speech is strained and slurred, every breath between words a battle.

2 months ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

A flight simulator. A coffee bar. A lounge. “The sky’s the limit,” Ismael Lara said about what he might do with the inoperable 1966 Boeing 727 he purchased at auction from the city of El Paso in January. The El Paso educator and entrepreneur, along with his brother, John Lara, paid $10,132 – including taxes and other fees – for the three-engine gutted airliner that has sat idle at El Paso International Airport for about 20 years.