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El Paso Herald Post – House Passes Affordable Care Act Benefits For Three Years
WASHINGTON, December 9, 2026: With the help of three Republican lawmakers, on a vote of 230 to 196, the House passed legislation extending health care subsidies that had expired at […] The…
The Border Chronicle – The Trump Corollary: A Q&A with Gabriel Aguirre about Venezuela
Subscribe now . A Venezuelan flag in Caracas after the U.S. attack on January 3. (Photo credit: Federico Parra / AFP via Getty Images) Share In November the Trump administration released its…
El Paso Herald Post – New Home Construction In El Paso Is Down
EL PASO, Tx., January 8, 2026: El Paso’s home builders started pulling fewer building permits to build new homes around August last year. The latest indicators are that new homes […] The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WASTE AT THE CITY’S FACILITIES & MAINTENANCE DIVISION
[[{“value”:” According to the City webpage, the Facilities and Fleet Maintenance division maintains over 180 buildings and 2,500 vehicles. The division has 130 employees and oversees an operating budget in excess of…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle Forecast for 2026
The Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park in Texas looking towards Mexico at sunset. (Photo credit: Alyssa Calbert via Getty) Subscribe now We hope you had a restful holiday, or at…
El Paso Herald Post – Guest Column: Book Stirs Up Uncomfortable Memories
A new book by El Paso native Miguel Juarez “Frontera Freeways: Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas,” pulls back the veil on the discriminatory policies that inspired where […] The…
El Paso Herald Post – Everything You Need to Know About the 2026 Primary Elections
EL PASO, Tx., January 5, 2026: The March 3, 2026, Texas primary is less than two months away. In El Paso, the primary is where most of the year’s elections […] The…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF THE OLIGARCHY GAZETTE
The El Paso Inc (aka Oligarchy Gazette) is not a newspaper by any stretch of the imagination. It is a business journal for the wealthy elite of Coronado and the Upper Valley…