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Car bounces off guard rail in Wednesday morning accident

Police say a woman was trying to switch lanes when she lost control of her car on I-10 near the Schuster exit.

They said her car bounced off a guard rail, causing it to hit a nearby wall at 1 a.m. Wednesday.

She suffered only minor injuries. No one else was hurt in the accident.

_{Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:59 -0600}

The majority of Mexicans want more help from U.S. in drug war

A recent poll in Mexico found that the majority of Mexicans want more help from the United States in the drug war which is tarnishing the country.
According to the poll conducted by The Dallas Morning News and Mexico's El Universal, 52 percent of Mexican nationals said they would like to see more help from their U.S. neighbors in combating the cartels.
And 28 percent of Mexicans said that they would actually like to see a U.S. military presence in their country.
Here in the borderland, people agreed the problem is very close to home and they also see a need for the U.S. government to intervene.
"People that I've met here that are Border Patrol agents let me know that what you see and is reported every day in the news is real and there is definitely an issue with the safety across the border. I think our military should be deployed to help solve the problem," said a man who did not want to be identified.

_{Wed, 16 May 2012 00:45:46 -0600}

Street car enroute to Downtown/West El Paso

City Council members voted to approve more than $1 million of city funds to determine if a street car should run through downtown El Paso. 

City council members will use the money to conduct an environmental impact study to determine what streets the rail line should run.

Representative Eddie Holguin says he supports the idea but is frustrated that City Council members would approve the use of money for a project that isn't necessary.

"I'm always told that there's no money," said Holguin. "Yet they always find money to do these types of studies."

The streetcars would be reminiscent to those running in San Francisco and New Orleans.

Representative Steve Ortega voted on the measure, and says the funds are necessary to invest in the cities growth, particularly the downtown area.

"We need to invest in the core," says Ortega, "El Paso's model has been a sprawling model, when it's been growing out instead of up."

If the street car plan does get approved, more than $90 million dollars of state tax money will go into the project, but Ortega says a street car doesn't seem necessary, when the people of his East El Paso district are having trouble getting around.

"Kids have to walk to school in the mud because there are no sidewalks. Streets haven't been repaved in 20 to 39 years," said Ortega.

_{Tue, 15 May 2012 21:59:38 -0600}

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