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The War on Drugs and 40 Years of Escalation on the Border

Sito Negron | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Sito Negron, Npt, Newspaper Tree, Border, War on Drugs, Utep, El Paso, Juarez, World News
Sito Negron

I live about a mile from the border, and can see Juarez from the yard in front of my apartment. Helicopters regularly fly so close overhead that my windows rattle.

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Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

Sito Negron | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Homophobia, Ramon Renteria, Chico Kiss, Gay Men, El Paso, Gay Men Kissing, Media News
Sito Negron

Not wanting to admit to disliking gays, let alone being outright homophobic, columnist Ramon Renteria and many others have made the assumption that the Chico's Kiss was a full-on mackfest.

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Faith Can Move Mountains

Javier Sierra | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Sierra Club, Environmental Justice, Asarco, Mariana Chew, El Paso, Smelter, Ciudad Juarez, Green News
Javier Sierra

The smelter spewed hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic substances such as lead, arsenic and cadmium, into the atmosphere and the communities that lived in its shadow.

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The Road from McAllen to El Paso

Harold S. Luft | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Atul Gawande, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare, El Paso, Texas, Health, Politics News
Harold S. Luft

Research has shown that more access to, and time with, primary care physicians can lead to better management of chronic illness and less interventional work and costs.

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"Poor Mexico, So Far From God, So Close To The United States"

Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.01.2009 | World

Read More: Chapultepec Palace, El Paso, Mexican Drug Gangs, Porfirio Diaz, Mexico City, Narco-Traffickers, Alan Riding, White Sands Proving Ground, Mexico, Tijuana, Defense Secretary Gates, Mexican War, Ciudad Juarez, Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, Drug War, Yucatan, World News
Sandy Goodman

If, like me, you're one of the millions of Americans who love Mexico, its current catastrophic crime wave can only fill you with sadness -- and fear that it will spread across our porous border.

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Drug Policy Reform: Is the Timing Perfect, or Are We Ahead of the Times?

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

Read More: El Paso, Cancun, Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, Paul Cook, Gil Kerlikowske, Drug Czar, Medical Marijuana, Wall Street Journal, Mexico Drug Violence, Barack Obama, Tom Ammiano, Texas Governor Rick Perry, John Walters, Barry McCaffrey, Dominic Holden, Living News
Stanton Peele

Are those of us who seek changes in the American approach to drugs whistling in the dark, or is now the time to strike?

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Drug War is Not Just a Metaphor; So How Do We Stop the Shooting?

Sito Negron | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Silvestre Reyes, Drug War, Border Security, El Paso, newspapertree.com, Juarez, Beto O'rourke, War on Drugs, Politics News
Sito Negron

As seen in El Paso, from its inception, the Drug War has been about fear and a rushed response to a missed diagnosis.

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Ryan Grim

El Paso, Texas, Calls On Congress To Debate Drug Legalization: Dems Refuse

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drugs Border, Border Control, El Paso, Politics News

The city of El Paso buckled to unusually explicit federal government pressure Tuesday and withdrew a call for a national debate on ending drug prohibi...

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Voters Weigh In On Important Local Issues

Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Citizen Journalism, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Groundreport, New York City Economy, Politics Is Local, Proposition 8, California, Immigration, Ground Report Citizen Journalism, Local Issues Voters, Morningside Heights, Alaska, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, El Paso, Gay Marriage, Home News
Rachel Sterne

While national news grabs headlines, voters around the country have expressed their interest in local issues this election season. A voter in New York says she wants to know about the impact of immigrants on the city's economy.

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