Updated on June 5, 2025 at 5:30E: Verónica Carbajal’s response added. Breaking News: El Paso News has confirmed that former mayor Oscar Leeser will not be running against Ricardo Samaniego next year. Over the last several months there have been persistent rumors Leeser would be challenging Ricardo Samaniego for his county judge seat. Back in […]
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One Of El Chapo’s Attorney’s Is Running For Judge Tomorrow
A stone’s throw away from El Paso an election with implications for both the United States and México is happening tying El Chapo, the Drug War and the future of the borderland judiciary together. Tomorrow, an election will be held across México for the first time electing judges to adjudicate justice in Mexican courts. Silvia […]
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Ysleta School Trustee Chris Hernandez Speaks About School District Deficit
El Paso school districts, including Ysleta Independent School District, are facing serious deficits because of dwindling school enrollments across El Paso. Texas, with a population of about 30.5 million, has experience declining populations in one-third of the counties in Texas, according to estimates produced by the Texas Demographic Center, a state agency. El Paso, one […]
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Original Sin: The Joe Biden Problem For Veronica Escobar
Commentary: Shortly after the November elections that saw Donald trump reelected for his second term and Veronica Escobar receiving less than 60% of the vote for the first time in her reelection campaign, she announced she would be stepping down from her national Democratic roles and begin “focusing on the El Paso community during the […]
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El Paso Children Depicted In AI Pornographic Images According To Criminal Indictment
Former El Pasoan Seth Herrera is accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to create child pornography images of El Paso children beginning in 2021, according to the federal indictment issued against him on Wednesday. Herrera was originally arrested on child pornography charges on August 23, 2024, while stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage […]
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El Paso County Commissioners Set To Issue Non-Voter Approved Debt On Monday
On Monday, the county commissioners will be voting on issuing $54 million in non-voter approved debt using certificates of obligation. Certificates of obligation are a debt instruments paid for by tax dollars that are issued by governmental bodies to pay for governmental infrastructure projects. At the same meeting, the county commissioners will also be voting […]
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The Case Of El Paso Independent School District Board Trustee Leah Hanany
El Paso voters are electing 13 school board seats today. The 13 school board seats are for school trustees at the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD), the San Elizario Independent School District and the Socorro Independent School District, as well as two seats for the El Paso Community College. There has been extremely low […]
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Three Incumbent Commissioners Face Uphill Battles To Keep Their Seats In 2026 And Two Possible Contenders Emerge
The date for the 2026 Primary elections has yet to be set, however several potential and announced candidates are making headlines. The statewide election is scheduled for November 3, 2026. The primary date, when El Paso candidates become the presumed winner of the November ballot, is yet to be scheduled. Nonetheless, incumbents have started to […]
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The Inconvenient Truth About The Prosecution Of The Walmart Killer And The False Narrative That Has Been Weaved Around Patrick Crusius
According to court documents, on Monday morning starting at 10:00am, Patrick Wood Crusius will plead guilty to killing 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso on August 3, 2019. This is the culmination of the inconvenient truth that prosecutors, the defense attorneys, the judges and the news media have cooperated in creating a faulty […]
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An El Paso-Based Federal Agency And Its El Paso Leader Leads Water Fight Between The US And Mexico
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe ended the Mexican American War and delineated most of the current borders between México and the US. The boundary between the countries starting west of El Paso and heading eastward is the Rio Grande, as the Rio Bravo is known in the United States. However, the river’s changing flow due […]