When Lori Edwards told her transgender teenage daughter that Texas’ House Bill 25 had passed, the 14-year-old turned away and started flipping through her phone. “Oh that sucks,” Emily said, and went silent. During the ...
State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez may be gearing up to challenge state Rep. Art Fierro after Texas lawmakers drew her current district out of the Texas House redistricting plan. Ordaz Perez changed her voter registration ...
A congressional redistricting map that splits Fort Bliss between two congressional seats was given final approval by both chambers of the Texas Legislature Monday. It now goes to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature — ...
El Paso’s Texas House delegation failed to convince their Republican colleagues Tuesday to revise a proposed redistricting plan that pits incumbent El Paso Democrats against one another in next year’s election. The Texas House voted ...
By Reese Oxner/The Texas Tribune The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday temporarily allowed Texas’ near-total abortion ban — the strictest in the nation — to again be enforced after freezing a federal judge’s temporary block of the ...
By Reese Oxner/Texas Tribune A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday as part of a lawsuit the Biden administration launched against the state over its new law that bars abortions as early ...
When the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban took effect in Texas on Sept. 1, Perla Galindo was 1,700 miles from El Paso. In Seattle, the left-leaning city where she now lives, Galindo says many feel ...
The first draft of a new Texas House map gives El Paso County less representation in the state Legislature’s lower chamber and pits two lawmakers who refused to end House Democrats’ quorum break against each ...
Texas Republicans released their first draft of a new state congressional map that reshapes El Paso’s two congressional seats. Fort Bliss would move from the 16th Congressional District to the 23rd Congressional District under the ...
Ten El Pasoans will be featured at this month’s Texas Tribune Festival, an annual gathering focused on politics, public policy and current events. The event, normally held in Austin, is being conducted virtually Sept. 20-25 ...
El Paso’s highest-ranking state lawmaker was stripped of his leadership position in the Texas House Thursday, three days after he left Texas for Washington, D.C. in an effort to block the Texas Legislature from passing ...
Every member of the El Paso legislative delegation will join their Democratic colleagues in Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop Republican state lawmakers from passing restrictive voting legislation during the special session. State Reps. Joe ...
Conservative lawmakers wasted no time answering Gov. Greg Abbott’s call to enact further restrictions on how race is taught in relation to the nation’s history in public and charter school classrooms during a special session ...
On the eve of the Texas governor’s June 30 visit to the Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz gave Fox News viewers a lesson in the state’s massive geography. El Paso, he said, where ...
When Bishop Mark Seitz visited the Fort Bliss tent facility for unaccompanied migrant children Sunday, he was only able to conduct one mass instead of the scheduled two because of record-setting rain that has drenched ...
U.S. Catholic bishops voted on Friday for a proposal to create guidelines for communion, the first step in an effort that could bar the sacrament to President Joe Biden and other Catholic elected officials who ...
Leaders in El Paso’s LGBTQ+ community convened on Thursday for a discussion on the state of the local queer community, hosted by El Paso Matters. Coinciding with LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the conversation covered several wide-ranging ...
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 ...
The amount of oversight and accountability at an immigration detention facility housing thousands of children is “absolutely unacceptable,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said after two visits to the site. The “megasite” emergency influx ...
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 ...
Emiliana “Emily” Edwards wants El Pasoans to know that she’s a normal kid. The 14-year-old middle schooler loves singing, watching anime, and playing games on her computer. But unlike her cisgender classmates, Emily’s identity as ...
El Paso County’s population grew by just over 5% in the past decade, a historically slow growth rate that could have political and financial implications for years to come, according to new Census Bureau population ...
Beto O’Rourke said he won’t make a decision on running for Texas governor in 2022 until later this year, but he definitely sounded like a candidate at times during a conversation with El Paso Matters. ...
Claudia Yoli Ferlas came to El Paso as an 8-year-old when she fled her native Venezuela with her mother. She has dedicated her life to encouraging other young adults to engage in politics, even though ...
We’re kicking off a new series of conversations with El Pasoans working to better our community. First up, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Join us from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 15. El Paso Matters ...
The day after the César Chávez holiday, labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta sat down virtually to speak with El Paso Community Center students. “El Paso is one of my favorite places in the ...
National polling has shown that Republicans express far more hesitancy than Democrats on whether to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Almost half of the people who support former President Donald Trump say they won’t get vaccinated. ...
An effort to redistrict and reduce courts of appeals in Texas could have major implications for El Pasoans. Texas currently has 14 courts of appeals throughout the state, including the 8th Court of Appeals that ...
By the Rt. Rev. Michael Hunn Part of my job as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, a diocese of the Episcopal Church consisting of the state of New Mexico and Far ...
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