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The El Paso Times is the newspaper for the US city of El Paso, Texas.The paper is the only English-language daily in El Paso (after the El Paso Herald-Post, an afternoon paper, closed in 1997), but often competes with the Spanish-language El Diario de El Paso, an offshoot of El Diario de Juárez which is published across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
1873 – El Paso incorporated. [3] 1876 – Lone Star newspaper begins publication. [4] 1881. Southern Pacific Railroad begins operating. [1][5] El Paso Times and El Paso Herald newspapers begin publication. [4] 1882 – Avenida Lerdo– Stanton Street Bridge [6] and Montgomery Building constructed.
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Joined the El Paso Times in 1976. A native of Valentine, Texas, which is just outside Marfa, Rentería began his newspaper career in 1972 at the Clovis, New Mexico, News Journal.
El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
KDBC-TV (channel 4) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate KFOX-TV (channel 14). The two stations share studios on South Alto Mesa Drive in northwest El Paso; KDBC-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the ...
Born. (1958-05-07) May 7, 1958 (age 66) Chihuahua, Mexico. Political party. Democratic. Occupation. Automobile dealership owner. Oscar Leeser (born May 7, 1958) is an American politician who has served as the 52nd mayor of El Paso, Texas since 2021.
List of Mayors of El Paso. Mayor Term Ben S. Dowell: 1873–1875 Melton A. Jones: 1875–1876 Solomon Shultz: 1880–1881 Joseph Magoffin: 1881–1885 C. Lightbody: