The El Paso City Council will begin reviewing possible changes to the City Charter in an November 2022 amendment election after a city representative said voters should decide on whether to switch back to a ...
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state of Texas will take over construction of the border wall and that all trespassers caught on the state’s southern border will be prosecuted and jailed as his efforts ...
Following a drop in the city’s budget last year due to impacts of COVID-19, city officials are looking at increasing the budget for the 2022 fiscal year by about $33 million — a move that ...
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 ...
The taupe building that was formerly Hill Top Women’s Reproductive Clinic now has an empty parking lot and sprawling real estate banners indicating the space is for sale. A notice on El Paso Planned Parenthood’s ...
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 ...
In the aftermath of the August 2019 shooting that left 23 people in El Paso dead, area lawmakers were cautiously optimistic that the rampage, one of the worst in Texas history, would spur Texas Republicans ...
El Paso’s taxpayers, city officials and government watchdogs agree — the city’s recycling program is far from perfect. Contaminated materials, mixed messaging on how to recycle, and rogue collection crews that “cut corners” have cost ...
Tens of thousands of El Paso homeowners will be looking at huge property tax increases this year if local governments don’t make substantial reductions in the current rates. Homeowners are caught in a pandemic vise ...
When Rita De La Rosa was searching for a welcoming place where she and her mother, Reynalda Staufer, could socialize and make new friends, they found it at the Memorial Park Senior Citizen Center. The ...
We’re continuing our reporting on this year’s property re-appraisals and their potential impact on property taxes. We want to talk with El Pasoans about their experiences. We’re particularly interested in talking with people who live ...
An “emergency response team” of law enforcement officers from smaller agencies in El Paso County is raising questions about need and liability from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and a national law enforcement organization. ...
Houston preservationist J.P. Bryan has funded a legal battle against the city’s Downtown multipurpose arena and donated tens of thousands of dollars to El Paso City Council candidates in the last two elections. In March, ...
When schools in McAllen moved online last spring, it became harder for Tiffany Torres-Gonzalez to attend class, even though her bedroom was now her classroom. She didn’t have internet at home and a district-issued mobile ...
Legislation that would categorize gender-affirming care for trans children as “child abuse” was discussed in a Texas Senate committee hearing Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from an El Pasoan parent. “I’m not an abuser, I’m ...
A controversial bill designed to redistrict and reduce the courts of appeals in Texas has been withdrawn after it drew sharp criticism during a public hearing in Austin last week. Senate Bill 11, filed by ...
Many El Paso homeowners are seeing a significant spike in their property appraisals, pushed upward by a hot real-estate market during the pandemic, Central Appraisal District officials said. The average home valuation in El Paso ...
Homeowners have begun receiving their 2021 property valuations from the Central Appraisal District. Some homeowners are reporting significant increases in valuation, which could result in higher property tax bills. As we report on the impact ...
When COVID-19 reached the Southwest last March, library systems faced multiple challenges. The impact on Texas and New Mexico libraries has varied when it comes to budget cuts, furloughs and the level of services provided. ...
An El Paso rabbi’s campaign to make people aware of the importance of charity was on display Wednesday in the Texas House of Representatives. Plastic yellow arks — charity boxes provided by the Chabad Lubavitch ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is marked by glaring inequality, with about one in five first vaccines going to people in wealthier West El Paso ZIP codes, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of ...
By Patrick Svitek/Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that he is ending Texas’ statewide mask mandate next week and will allowall businesses to operate at full capacity. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott ...
A lawsuit by former state Rep. Joe Pickett alleges the city of El Paso is hiding tax increases in water bills, using a fee that purportedly is to pay for damages to streets caused by ...
By Robert Storch The failure of local leaders to adopt a comprehensive strategy for implementing long-range urban plans will result in permanent damage to the quality of life in Downtown El Paso and surrounding neighborhoods. ...
Some El Paso librarians have been reinstated to their jobs, two days after the city sparked public outrage by sending them layoff notices. Sue Barnum, a longtime librarian who received a layoff notice on Wednesday ...
Five city leadership executives received higher pay rates in October, triggering concerns among some city representatives who said they were not advised ahead of the changes. City executive pay raise data from March through January ...
The city of El Paso on Wednesday informed 75 furloughed employees — mostly library workers — that their jobs are being permanently eliminated. Officials said the employees would be offered other jobs in the city, ...
The El Paso Police Department can’t account for more than half the internal reports it says are regularly conducted to track performance, according to documents obtained by El Paso Matters through the Texas Public Information ...
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 ...
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By Eddie Rodriguez Before the COVID-19 pandemic brought our nation to a halt, Texas was on the verge of making transformative changes to our public education system. State lawmakers had just passed school funding reform, ...