Long known as “The Sun City,” El Paso is starting to realize the power of its fair weather  blessing as more than a tourism slogan. The El Paso Times reports the city today dedicated its new solar-powered performance pavilion and public charging station Downtown. The pavilion, at 605 N. Santa Fe Street,  according to the city’s solar project’s website” is a shaded yet light-filled gathering and performance space...

Here’s a fun and effective use of art on Facebook by the Las Cruces Sun-News promoting the newspaper’s coverage of the upcoming UNM vs NMSU game. Adding the arrow makes it appealing for New Mexico State University fans to share the art on their own status updates and spread their school pride.  Note the clever bubble in the upper right corner telling readers where they can send gameday photos. Within just a few hours of posting this...

It took a few digital platforms before UT El Paso-based Borderzine.com found success in its mission to inform and employ, said Webmaster Lourdes Cueva Chacón. “We started with 50 unique visitors a month,” Cueva Chacón said of the website that first launched in December 2008. “We are now around 20,000 a month.” Senior journalism lecturer and Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha told the Columbia Journalism Review in a May interview that the...