BIG NEWS: NY State leaders agree on landmark, bipartisan plan to help counter the collapse of community news – $30 million in employment tax credits for news outlets. First in the nation. Most significant state effort yet.

In-box from Border Patrol. I’m certain that Saturday being 4/20 is pure coincidence.

I just looked in the mirror and saw a military aged male. What is he doing here?

#nativistthoughts

My epitaph was written 5 years ago today.

Ahead of Earth Day next week, Climate Central reports that the average daily temperature in El Paso has grown by more than 5 degrees since the first Earth Day. Among U.S. cities, only Reno and Las Vegas have seen faster temperature rises since the first Earth Day in 1970.

#OnThisDay in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote.

Jail trusties passed his words to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into

Worth noting that all Republicans in the Texas delegation except Senator John Cornyn, Rep. Kay Granger and Michael McCaul voted against the CHIPS and Science Act, the bill that a GOP state senator appears to be celebrating.

This is a real intersection in El Paso.

A lot of much smarter folks will have other things to say about the legacy of O.J. Simpson, but I will say this:

His murder trial marks a pivotal moment in the decline of American broadcast news. It accelerated in our media environment an unapologetic centering of flash over

San Eli wins fourth state championship, 1-0 against Boerne elpasotimes.com/videos/news/20…

Those who seek to deny undocumented children an education seek to create a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants who are easy to exploit and who can serve as a permanent foil for their expanding authoritarian goals.

An OJ story from my friend Dick Behrenhausen, who lived in Chicago before retiring in El Paso. He was to golf in a foursome in 1994 with OJ, Steve Garvey and Bruce Jenner. Garvey got a call from his wife at the clubhouse, then said. 'We're not golfing today. OJ killed his wife.'

We’re excited to share that CREEED Executive Director Eddie Rodriguez is participating in tomorrow’s Texas Tribune symposium, “What the Rest of Texas can learn from El Paso,” at TTUHSC El Paso! Eddie is joining a panel on education in the region with:
🎤 El Paso Matters founder and CEO

Former El Paso federal judge Harry Lee Hudspeth, who died Sunday, was remembered for his fairness, intellect, dry sense of humor -- and betting on the longshots at Sunland Park Racetrack.

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El Paso’s Rep. Veronica Escobar is among the signatories. Always worth noting that she is one of the national co-chairs for Biden’s re-election campaign.

Lots at work here but referring to premiere college athletes as girls speaks volumes .

In-box: ⁦Rep. Veronica Escobar⁩ calls for Biden administration to withhold offensive weapons to Israel. She’s one of Biden’s campaign co-chairs.

Back briefly in my old stomping grounds to speak at Colorado College. I learned as a rookie cop reporter that cops on the radio said “Dog” instead of Cache la Poudre when referring to a downtown street. Some struggled pronouncing the name and they decided it sounded like poodle.

Wait, you’re saying I could have been getting paid for tweeting all this time? So frustrating to be excluded from conspiracies.

Is it me or does that look like…