Loop 375 needs a 3rd lane open to handle traffic

I travel Loop 375 every morning and evening and can't understand why the city doesn't open the third lane that obviously is there.

The traffic is terrible.

You have vehicles on the slow lane trying to exit and vehicles on fast lane trying to get on the slow lane to also try to exit.

The city always seems to wait until there's a terrible accident before they realize, I guess we should open the third lane to help avoid the traffic jams each morning and evening.

The city officials need to get out there and get in the middle of the traffic so they can actually experience the mess.

City officials, let's not wait until life is lost to make a drastic change to that situation on Loop 375.

Ruben Alcala East Side

Basketball playoffs bring memories for Clint fan

Following the 1991-92 Clint High School 3A boys' Basketball team across West Texas all the way to Frank Erwin Center and the state Final Four — those were exciting times!

The article about Andress's top ranking and local teams starting the playoffs brought it all back.

Best wishes to the athletes, coaches and all involved in their programs, and their families and friends.

Carlisle Navidomskis Horizon City


Obama must be held accountable for failures

The debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the George W. Bush presidency.

It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office, and President Obama has not been in office for two terms.

President Bush was not the best and did things that were a mistake, but if we can take you guys blaming about him almost what five years later, then how come we can't say President Obama has failed in his promises.

This is a bad decline and we have to do something about this, even if it means voting out everyone.

Patrick Arrington Northeast El Paso

Vote for experience in justice of the peace race

As a young voter I am starting to understand how elected officials get elected into office.

I am saddened by the lack of qualifications, experience and education of these elected officials.

I am endorsing Patrice Pena Loge for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4 because she brings all that and more.

The incumbent Barbara Perez is a career politician with no college education, and no prior court experience.

She has done nothing for El Paso.

I agree with Pena Loge that if we want a better El Paso we need to start voting for better elected officials — people who are qualified and are not politicians.

The El Paso Times endorsed her years ago when she ran for county clerk, as Patrice Siqueiros.

I urge the younger generation to come out and vote for her.

Nikki Calderon East Side

We all say we need new leadership in our community to step up and run for office and then when they do everyone starts tearing them down.

We will never get good people to run if we don't support them when they do.

Brian Kennedy has proven that he is a leader and businessman.

We need to send a message that we want more people like Brian to run.

I'm supporting Mr. Kennedy for Justice of the Peace, Precinct 7, and I hope there are more people out there like him.

Sharon Robinet Upper Valley

Don't erase the history of the Confederacy

Thank for your balanced coverage of the controversy on the renaming of Robert E. Lee Road on Fort Bliss.

I'd be a little more blunt.

The NAACP has long had a campaign to erase all vestiges of the Confederacy and I suspect this is part of that since Fort Bliss has many other roads that could have been named in honor of the Buffalo Soldiers.

One group campaigning to erase the history of another group is just another form of racism.

The reason for naming streets after Confederate generals was part of efforts to heal a divided nation.

As someone whose ancestors fought on both sides of the Civil War, I see this as a slap in the face.

History is complex. The main reason the South used slaves from Africa instead of the European indentured servants and child labor favored by North was because of the steady supply of cheap labor created by the fact that warring African tribes were selling their prisoners of war to white slavers.

Erasing the Confederacy doesn't erase the root cause of slavery nor further the cause of valuing diversity.

If we truly want to grow beyond racism as a unified nation, we should find ways to build bridges rather than displace the history of one group in favor of another.

Susan Mucha Upper Valley