A Mother’s Guilt, a self-portrait oil painting by Rio Grande Valley artist Josie Del Castillo, produced in 2024. (Courtesy of the artist) Subscribe now Josie Del Castillo is a figurative painter whose…
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El Paso Herald Post – Analysis: El Paso Is a Low-margin Transit Economy Rather Than A High-Tax-Yielding Economic Powerhouse Because Of Poor Leadership
EL PASO, Tx., November 6, 2025: El Paso homeowners face some of the highest property tax rates in Texas despite having modest median incomes and home values. The high tax […] The…
El Paso Herald Post – Texas And National Election Results: How El Paso Voted Against Other Texas Voters and the Rise of the Democratic Progressives
EL PASO, Tx., November 5, 2025: Yesterday’s elections were a snapshot of what’s to come in 2026 for the Democrats and a referendum on the federal shutdown, now the longest […] The…
The Border Chronicle – “We pay for borders with everything”
When Russ McSpadden was a child growing up in a military family stationed in Germany, his father brought him a piece of the Berlin Wall. At the time McSpadden didn’t understand the…
El Paso Herald Post – Tuesday Time Warp – As America Looks At Mexican Civil War, Europe Prepares For World War I
In today’s edition of Tuesday’s Time Warp, we go back to the July 20, 1914 edition of the El Paso Herald who’s front-page was covered with news about how European […] The…
El Paso Herald Post – The Economic Reasons Behind Switching Clocks Twice A Year
EL PASO, Tx., November 3, 2025: Many readers are waking up this morning a little disoriented because of the time change yesterday. They are not alone. Moving the clocks back […] The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – IS THERE A NEW PLAN FOR AN ARENA IN OUR DOWNTOWN?
[[{“value”:” Based upon what we have learned so far about the City’s secretive property acquisitions and the expansion of the “Convention Center Master Plan,” we are starting to think the City plans…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – NEW COUNTY CFO RAN CITY FINANCES UNDER JOYCE WILSON, HAS CONTROVERSIAL RECORD
[[{“value”:” Last month, Chief Administrator Betsy Keller appointed Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria as Director of Budget and Finance of El Paso County. There was no discussion of the hire by the County Commissioners Court…
El Paso Herald Post – Civic Sense: Escobar Should’ve Led on the TSA Video Issue
The controversy over the TSA’s decision to air a video at the El Paso International Airport blaming Democrats for the federal shutdown has exposed a question about leadership and responsibility. […] The…
El Paso Herald Post – Representatives Fierro And Limon Speak Out About TSA Video Vote
EL PASO, Tx., October 31, 2025: On Tuesday, the city council voted on a plan to discuss the controversial video at the El Paso Airport with the Transportation Security Administration […] The…