Regional Identity Magazine - Fall 2019
October
Nobel Laureates Use Economics to Study Global Poverty Crisis
On October 14, 2019, it was announced that the winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer. Husband and wife, Banerjee and Duflo are both researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Acquisition of El Paso Electric
The Infrastructure Investments Fund that is advised by JPMorgan is an entity that purchased the publicly traded stock of El Paso Electric Company for $4.3 billion in order to become the single owner of the company. The only thing that will change is "the ownership in terms of the company in The United States Securities and Exchange Commission"...
September Issue
Sun Country Montessori: Serving El Paso’s Children
Sun Country Montessori is not a ‘traditional’ school with teacher-directed learning, but rather a more progressive style learning where teachers are guiding children through the learning process and encouraging independence...
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Downtown El Paso: Construction Underway!
Recently, El Paso has taken up the responsibility to make further renovations to it's city, more specifically, the downtown area. The renovations being made to the downtown area are a beacon of hope towards growth and increasing diversity in the heart of the city. Any individual at this very moment can take a stroll through the downtown area and see construction.. |
Effect on Retail Sales Post Walmart Shooting
The nature of a major large-scale event like the Walmart shooting in El Paso has an after math with many implications. Among those implications is the question of how retail sales will be affected across the Paso del Norte region. The incident has sparked concerns about the risks of decline on major retail stores and their sales...