This article is published in partnership with El Paso Herald Post. As El Paso Herald Post reported on Saturday, community activist Max Grossman was arrested late last week on a family violence charge. According to one of Grossman’s attorneys, Brian Kennedy, an indictment has not been filed against Grossman charging him with a crime. An […]
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Hunt Companies Critic At Texas House Now Accepting Hunt Campaign Funds Again After Publicly Accusing The Company Of Corruption
This article is published in partnership with El Paso Herald Post El Paso’s second congressman, Tony Gonzales (R-23), returned $5,800 of campaign contributions to Woody Hunt after losing the 2021 redistricting battle to move the airport and Fort Bliss into his district. Hunt Military Communities is one of the nation’s largest private military developers and […]
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El Paso Herald Post: Bienvenidos Al Futuro
A version of this article appeared on the El Paso Herald Post yesterday. From “Adios, amigos” on October 11, 1997 to “Hola Amigos,” in 2015, today marks the rebirth of a 100-year-old El Paso news institution – the El Paso Herald-Post. The El Paso Herald Post returned to provide comprehensive news coverage for El Paso […]
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Opinion: The Real Problem (and Solution) With Redistricting Is Simple: The Maps Don’t Make Sense
By Chris Hernandez Rep. Vince Perez recently told El Paso News that Texas’s new congressional maps are “racially engineered.” He’s not wrong. That’s exactly the right argument in court, where the Voting Rights Act remains one of the few tools for fighting gerrymandering. But here’s the catch: what works in a courtroom doesn’t work with […]
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El Paso Vince Perez Speaks About Quorum Break And Almost $10K In Fines
On August 3, Texas House Democrats fled the state to stop the Republicans from adopting a new congressional map giving the GOP five additional sets in the U.S. House in the upcoming 2026 elections. By breaking quorum, the 62 Democrats stopped the Texas legislature from adopting the new map during their first attempt. When the […]
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Latest El Paso News Survey Shows El Paso Voters Leaning Towards Anyone But Ricardo Samaniego
El Paso News surveyed 10,000 El Paso voters yesterday via text messaging to see how competitive a candidate with little political name recognition would be against incumbent county judge Ricardo Samaniego. In recent weeks, several names have surfaced as potential candidates against Samaniego in 2026. Among the names included Oscar Leeser and Brian Kennedy. Leeser […]
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Former KTSM News Reporter Alleged Veronica Escobar Had Her Fired
On December 6, 2022, former KTSM reporter Christina Aguayo filed a lawsuit against Veronica Escobar alleging that Veronica Escobar sent “repetitive emails” and made “repetitive phone calls” to KTSM’s management “demanding” that KTSM fire her. Aguayo also alleged that Escobar slandered her to the television station’s management. She was fired from KTSM on February 8, […]
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Beto O’Rourke Top Funder For Democrat Quorum Breakers
An attempt by Texas Republicans to hold a special session to redistrict Texas’ congressional maps to create five new Republican seats led many Texas Democrats to flee Texas to disrupt the special Texas House session by breaking quorum. By leaving Texas, the Democrats hope to keep the Republicans from enacting new GOP-friendly seats. The current […]
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The Mexican American Women Who Challenged The “White Political Domination” Of El Paso
This article is co-published by El Paso News and Fronterizo Magazine. At one point, El Paso had large apparel manufacturing operations feeding the city’s economy. The city was once considered the jeans capital of the world. Behind the gleaming factories churning out pants across El Paso employing large quantities of El Pasoans, lay a sinister […]
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From DEA Agent To Convicted Criminal: The Story Of An El Paso Family, A Kid From Juarez And A Murder-for-Hire Plot
For Salvador Martinez his story begins like many other stories of aspiring law enforcement agents seeking adventure from a television show he watched as youngster. For him, it was the Miami Vice television series that ran from 1984 through 1989. But on the day that the FBI arrested him, Martinez was not the suave Miami […]