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The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BEING CARPET-BOMBED BY OUR FIVE LOCAL TAXING ENTITIES?
[[{“value”:” Here are the tax increases for FY 2027 on the average-valued residence in El Paso: EPISD $114 CITY $105 COUNTY $41 EPCC $16 UMC $10 Invite your friends and family to…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup + Poetry Supplement: September 18
A federal court rules that law enforcement can search cell phones at the border without reasonable cause or a warrant, CBP One and CBP Home are one in the same, and a…
El Chuqueño Blog – Selective Indignation
by Tim Holt There has been a lot of talk lately about data centers coming to our little corner of the desert. Meta is building a huge one in El Paso, and…
El Paso Herald Post – County Judge Candidate Minerva Torres Shelton Responds to Incumbent Ricardo Samaniego’s Health and Travel Reports
EL PASO, Tx., September 18, 2026: In the upcoming November 3rd elections, incumbent Democrat County Judge Ricardo Samaniego faces Republican challenger Minerva Torres Shelton. Samaniego first assumed office on January […] The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – HANANY BRAGS ABOUT LOWERING EPISD TAX RATE YET TAX BILLS ARE SET TO INCREASE 9.7%
[[{“value”:” Leah Hanany is President of the Board of Trustees of the El Paso Independent School District and is as dishonest as she is incompetent. The Board passed its FY 2027 budget…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle Turns Five. What’s Next?
Founders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller join editor and reporter Caroline Tracey to revisit the newsroom’s beginnings and the stories that have defined it, and to celebrate its next chapter. Read more:…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – STOUT SPENT MORE ON TRAVEL THAN THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT COMBINED, SAMANIEGO UNDER FIRE FOR TAIWAN EXPENDITURES
[[{“value”:” Lesley Engle of KVIA ABC-7 News, with the assistance of Andrew J. Polk, just published a journalistic masterpiece that every citizen of El Paso must read. Here is what we learn:…
El Chuqueño Blog – Sweetbreads
They are not sweet, and they are not breads, but they’re one of the most delicious parts of the animal. [“Sweetbread is a culinary name for the thymus or pancreas, typically from…
El Chuqueño Blog – The Orb
From NewYorker.com [paywall]: Three summers ago, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, posted on X a fifteen-second video of dozens of people—mostly young, veiled in face masks, and wearing super-hip, white-soled sneakers—waiting…