Cindy Ramirez

2 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Cindy Ramirez

This article was published by El Paso Matters on Feb. 19, 2025. Read more of their reporting at elpasomattters.org. The sun had not begun to peek over the horizon in south Las Cruces when a pair of siblings headed to work at a flower farm to prepare soil for planting and pack plants for shipping. That Monday, Jan.

2 months ago | elpasomatters.org | Cindy Ramirez

Groups that provide legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children were ordered to stop their work Tuesday – including Estrella del Paso, the Catholic Diocese organization that is currently working with some 2,000 children across West Texas and New Mexico. “If we are not given access to these children, we absolutely expect that the number of children receiving deportation orders will go up,” Melissa M.