U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar is teaming up with the Texas Democratic Party on an ambitious voter registration push ahead of next year’s state and federal elections to help combat what she said is an attempt ...
After being just shy of avoiding a runoff last month, Israel Irrobali comfortably won the race Saturday for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. He received 62% ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court and the El Paso City Council are gearing up for the decennial task of redistricting political boundaries based on U.S. Census data — a move that could impact who ...
In 2018, faced with intense criticism, the El Paso Border Patrol sector scrapped a “crowd control exercise” that was planned next to the Chihuahuita neighborhood on Nov. 6 — Election Day. The exercise was planned ...
Northeast El Paso residents have a second opportunity to vote for their representative for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. Candidates Cordia “Vanessa” Betts and Israel Irrobali ...
One El Paso ISD school board incumbent was defeated Saturday and another re-elected. District 3 incumbent Josh Acevedo was re-elected to a spot on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees while District ...
At the height of the fall coronavirus case surge, a now-candidate seeking to represent Central El Paso families on the EPISD school board called into question the efficacy of face masks. “The masks are not ...
Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees. Trustees play an important role in school districts. They ...
Since January, $61,000 in campaign contributions has flowed into the El Paso and Socorro school board races, finance reports filed last week show. More than half of that funding comes from special interest groups rather ...
El Paso and Socorro independent school districts each have four school board seats up for grabs this spring. El Pasoans wanting to participate in the May 1 election have until Thursday, April 1 to register ...
Voters living within the Ysleta school district boundaries won’t cast a ballot this spring to fill four seats on the seven-member school board. On Wednesday, the Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees canceled its ...
El Paso Independent School District trustees on Tuesday narrowly rejected a move to switch school board elections from majority to plurality vote. The change would have done away with runoff elections, which trustees Daniel Call ...
Former El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser was returned to office Saturday, trouncing the man who succeeded him in 2017, Dee Margo. Leeser picked up more than 79% of the 53,929 votes cast in the runoff ...
El Paso’s next mayor will be chosen in large part by the city’s oldest voters, an El Paso Matters analysis of early voting turnout in Saturday’s runoff election shows. Almost 56% of those who cast ...
Dec. 12 update: Lillian Blancas won the runoff election for Municipal Court 4. City Council will appoint someone to fill out her four-year term. Lillian Blancas, an El Paso attorney who is in a runoff ...
In the Dec. 12 mayoral runoff, El Pasoans face a unique choice — two candidates who have held the office, and have a record from their time of service. Oscar Leeser, El Paso’s mayor from ...
Election season isn’t over yet in El Paso. A handful of local races weren’t decided on Nov. 3 and will be settled in the Dec. 12 runoff election. At the top of the ballot is ...
A surge in young voters propelled El Paso to a record-shattering turnout in the 2020 presidential election, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting data shows. Despite being engulfed by the worst COVID-19 outbreak ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar was elected to a second term in Congress last week with 64% of the vote. Her win wasn’t a surprise — Democrats have controlled Texas’ 16th Congressional District seat since 1965. ...
Women were first able to vote in a presidential election 100 years ago, although initially this right was only extended to white women. A century later, El Paso women are showing up in massive numbers ...
State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, filed paperwork on Election Day seeking to be Texas’ next speaker of the House of Representatives. If he is selected by House colleagues, Moody would be the first Latino ...
As more than 220,000 El Pasoans went to vote early in recent weeks, one woman had to sit on the sidelines. Martha, a Mexican immigrant in the process of applying for U.S. citizenship, could not ...
El Paso Matters journalists are documenting developments during this historic day. Check back frequently for updates. Wednesday, Nov. 4, 8 a.m. El Paso sets voting record More than 256,000 votes have been counted in El ...
Financial backers of the six candidates vying for mayor have pumped close to $1 million into their campaigns since Tuesday’s race started in spring 2019. Incumbent Dee Margo, former Mayor Oscar Leeser and political newcomers ...
By George Lopez ¿Qué chingados pasó? At heart, my job as a comedian and artist means I’m a storyteller. And these days I’m troubled by the story I see about our country and how we, ...
At a time when a global pandemic has shifted the traditional campaigning efforts for candidates, the Internet has become an invaluable source for campaigns. City Council District 7 candidate Aaron Montes, a former reporter for ...
Younger and infrequent voters drove El Paso’s record-shattering early voting turnout, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. El Paso Matters modeling shows that by the times polls close on Tuesday, somewhere between 280,000 and 300,000 ...
El Paso’s 2020 election’s early voting season closes today in the midst of a devastating pandemic. More than 204,000 El Pasoans have voted so far, a record by far. If 14,000 people vote today, El ...
El Pasoans still holding mail ballots for Tuesday’s election should bring them to the County Courthouse rather than entrusting them to the Postal Service, El Paso’s top election official said. “I would say Downtown is ...
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