The early voting results are in for the District 2 runoff election between Josh Acevedo and Verónica Carbajal. Based on the early voting results, El Paso News projects that the winner will be Josh Acevedo. With a lead of close to 200 votes, Acevedo will likely be elected as the city representative for District 2. […]
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District Attorney And Texas House District 77 Campaign Finance Reports
The latest campaign finance reports were due on Tuesday. Because of a technical glitch with the Texas Ethics Commission’s reporting tool, we are not able to review the reports for the District Attorney and Texas House District 77 reports until late in the day. Here is what we found in them. District Attorney Nancy Casas […]
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El Paso Campaign Finance Reports Were Due Yesterday – Here Is What We Found
Campaign finance reports were due yesterday for the January 20 runoff for the city council District 2 seat between Josh Acevedo and Verónica Carbajal and the races in the March Primaries. The early voting period for the runoff election ended yesterday. Election Day is Saturday. El Paso News developed an election platform that allows users […]
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Breaking News – Campaign Sign Theft Caught On Video – Police Report Filed
El Paso News has learned that a campaign banner belonging to judicial candidate Marlene Gonzalez, who is running for reelection in the March Primaries, was removed illegally from a rock wall on the candidate’s property. The theft of the banner was caught on video. El Paso News spoke to Gonzalez earlier today who confirmed that […]
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Campaign Finance Reports For Texas House 77 Were Due Last Thursday, Norma Chavez Did Not File AND Vince Perez Outraised Alexsandra Annello
Although political candidates and observers are waiting for the January 15, 2024 campaign finance reports to be released so that they can examine the campaign financing of candidates running for office, there was a campaign finance report due on Thursday that provides an overview of the campaign finances for the three candidates running for the […]
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Will Proposition C End Up On A Shelf Asks Jerry Kurtyka In A Guest Editorial
By Jerry Kurtyka, Community First Coalition When Proposition C was passed by El Paso voters in 2022, they expected to see the results promised on the ballot. The proposition’s $5.2 million bond issue was to construct, improve, renovate, expand, and enhance City facilities for renewable energy and other improvements. Instead, the City came back to […]
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Guest Editorial: Community activist Xavier Miranda Responds To Chris Hernandez Editorial About Verónica Carbajal
By: Xavier Miranda For too long El Paso has succumbed to a colonized mentality, which has made us the epicenter of much injustice. Our history is peppered with travesties ranging from the mass shooting at Walmart, the separation of children from their families at Tornillo, the toxic air quality plaguing the families living in the […]
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Acevedo Carbajal Run-off Election Drawing New Voters Analysis Shows
Early voting is underway for the run-off election between Josh Acevedo and Verónica Carbajal for the City Council District 2 seat. Acevedo and Carbajal are in a runoff because neither received 50% plus one votes in the December 9, 2023 election. On December 9, Verónica Carbajal received 781 votes. Carbajal was followed by Josh Acevedo […]
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Guest Editorial: Let’s Get Something Straight About Veronica Carbajal
By: Chris Hernandez Let’s talk straight about Veronica Carbajal’s recent claims. She’s saying her social media posts influenced the City Council to remove City Manager Tommy Gonzalez. Now, we all like to think our Instagram and Facebook posts shake things up, but let’s be real here – the idea that social media sways local politics […]
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2023 In Review: The Stories That Impact The 2024 Elections
As we close out the year, we wanted to take a moment to review what we covered, uncovered and reported in 2023 that sets the tone for the three upcoming elections in 2024 that our readers found important to read. The first election in 2024 is on January 20. It is the runoff election between […]