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Polls are closed for EPISD's single race runoff election to decide who will take the District 5 seat currently filled by Chuck Taylor.

Leeser admin news There’s word on the street that Oscar Leeser, El Paso’s incoming mayor, will name his chief of staff soon.  It’s said to be Estrella Escobar, who was Diana Natalicio’s right-hand person while she was UTEP president. Escobar held several positions during her 19 years at UTEP, including senior advisor to the president and associate VP for communications. She left last year as Heather Wilson became president. Escobar also has city experience, as executive assistant to Mayor Carlos Ramirez from 1998 to 2001. Ramirez followed Larry Francis as mayor, and was...

Interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker   Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St. Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when midnight came. Burroughs, who had watched television alone that night, was asleep in his room at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis’s most elegant. At noon the next day he was ready for the interview. He wore a gray lightweight Brooks Brothers suit with a vest, a blue-striped shirt from Gibraltar cut in the English style, and a deep-blue tie with small white polka dots. His manner was not so...