Politics is an odd thing. People run for office by making uuuuge promises – looking at you, President Trump – and they make allegations against the current administration and the way elected officials are mishandling their offices. Often, allegations of corruption are thrown around. Such was the case with the most recent El Paso mayoral […]Read More
Stephen King is a weirdo. He thinks up stories about scary-ass hotels, murderous dogs, and little kids who bring their pets back to life. He needs some Jesus in his life. The 1980 classic movie of ‘The Shining’ written by this oddball is coming back to El Paso theaters this month. You can check it […]Read More
The San Jose Catholic Church in the Lower Valley has been around for 104 years, but its days are numbered. The church has not been maintained properly, and both time and improper maintenance have taken their toll. The Diocese closed the church last year due to structural problems that the City of El Paso said […]Read More
El Paso City Rep. Larry Romero is on a golf vacation in Georgia. He is also still asking City Council to excuse his absences from meetings, and still getting a taxpayer-funded paycheck even though he is not doing any work to earn it. The question on everyone’s mind is, how do we put an end […]Read More
The attacks on Paris have called an ‘act of war’ by the French president. We like to think that this kind of thing will never happen in the United States. Tell that to the survivors of 9/11, of the Oklahoma bombing, the Boston Marathon bombings, school shootings, and theater shootings. Acts of terrorism happen all the […]Read More
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, has become very popular in the United States because it falls right after Halloween. Americans have taken the spiritual, religious holiday and blended it in with the ghosts and ghouls common to American Halloween, and it has a lot of people bemoaning the ‘cultural appropriation’ of yet […]Read More
There has been a lot of talk about this season about the UTEP football team. “What is up with this season’s schedule?” “Who decided to schedule Immaculate Who? for the home opener?” “Why can’t we be in a real conference like we were in the past?” But most importantly, why won’t El Paso fans support […]Read More
The news that a group of Korean American clothing manufacturers from Los Angeles are contemplating moving their businesses to El Paso should be something that is welcomed, but for a lot of social media harrumphers, it’s become the chance to hate on the city’s job prospects. City officials also seem to be turning a blind […]Read More
El Paso Is… El Paso is a true melting pot. Mexican, Middle Eastern, Chinese, German, Black, Jewish, Catholic, Yankee, Southern, Spanish, Indian – all those qualifiers have roiled around in this region for hundreds of years, baking in the desert sun and becoming what we are today. We are a town of family, tradition, and […]Read More
I’ve been the co-host of the Mike and Tricia Mornings for the past 8 years, the longest running of Mike’s on-air wives! My day starts with a muttered curse word when the alarm goes off at 3 a.m., but once that first morning pot of coffee kicks in, I’m raring to go and entertain our […]Read More
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