AUSTIN, Tx., October 31, 2025: With the end of food subsidies under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance (SNAP) program, previously known as food stamps, starting tomorrow, El Paso State Representatives Mary […] The…
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El Paso Herald Post – Guest Editorial: The Time for a Bold Progressive El Paso Democratic Party Is Now
For decades, Democrats in El Paso have taken comfort in a simple belief: this city will always stay blue. But that assumption has become a dangerous illusion. Behind the numbers […] The…
The Border Chronicle – “Telling the Truth about Immigration”: A Podcast with Isabel Garcia
Subscribe now Photo from the Chicana Borderlands Voices website. Share Longtime organizer and former Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia starts the conversation off with an assessment of U.S. public knowledge of…
El Paso Herald Post – Analysis: Federal Shutdown Exposes Divide Within The El Paso Democratic Party
EL PASO, Tx., October 30, 2025: The ongoing federal shutdown and controversy over an airport video at the security lanes has slowly exposed political divides within the El Paso County […] The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY PURCHASING THREE UNION PLAZA PROPERTIES FOR $3.2M TO EXPAND CONVENTION CENTER, WILL PAY 362% OF APPRAISED VALUE
[[{“value”:” We previously reported that the City is planning to expand the Convention Center south of San Antonio Avenue and into the Union Plaza neighborhood. The City has been aggressively purchasing properties…
El Paso Herald Post – Federal Food Subsidies Set To Expire On Saturday For Over 140,000 El Pasoans
EL PASO, Tx., October 29, 2025: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, formerly known as food stamps, will end on Saturday, unless Texas officials intervene before then. Texas officials had previously said that […] The…
The Border Chronicle – They Grow the Food. So Why Are So Many Going Hungry?
Students at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley prepare seed trays for a community garden organized through the department of Agroecology in the Rio Grande Valley. (Photo credit: UTRGV Agroecology Lab) Share…
El Paso Herald Post – Tuesday Time Warp – Women Convicts Ordered To Clean City Jail
In today’s edition of Tuesday’s Time Warp, we go back to 1911 when El Paso’s city leaders decreed that women convicts serving their sentences at the city jail would now […] The…
El Paso Herald Post – Judge Denies Request To Dismiss Five-Year-Old Civil Lawsuit Against Two El Paso Children’s Hospital Doctors
EL PASO, Tx., October 27, 2025: Last week a judge ruled that a civil lawsuit filed against two doctors and the El Paso Children’s Hospital over the 2019 death of […] The…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: October 24
Subscribe now Take Our Reader Survey More News from the Border: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for…