AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans are seeking to deflect blame, misleadingly pointing to renewable energy sources including wind and solar power as the culprits of the state’s massive power outages, as millions of the state’s residents face below-freezing temperatures without power or running water. Millions of Texans remain without power
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — As millions of Texans continue to struggle with power outages during a massive winter storm, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered Texas natural gas producers to sell the fuel to in-state power generators in an effort to restore electricity. There were three million Texas households and businesses still without power as of Wednesday afternoon,
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EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has hinted at a run for Texas’ chief executive position, ripped into Gov. Greg Abbott for his appearance on a conservative talk show that claimed wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame for power outages across Texas as the electrical grid buckled.
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COLORADO CITY, Texas — The mayor of this Texas town of about 4,000 people stepped down Tuesday in the wake of a controversial social media post in which he said residents without electricity and water due to a winter storm are “lazy” and “weak,” adding that local government and utility services owed them “nothing,” ABC
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SANTA FE. New Mexico — New Mexico health officials reported 308 additional Covid-19 cases on Tuesday and a dozen deaths. A woman in her 80s was the only death to occur in Doña Ana County, which also had 52 of the state’s new cases. The number of deaths of New Mexicans from Covid-19 is now 3,550
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EL PASO, Texas — Immunize El Paso says it is waiting on the state of Texas to allow it to vaccinate more area residents against Covid-19. To date the healthcare clinic has vaccinated 2,000 El Pasoans with their first and second doses. “We received our initial vaccine allocation in the beginning of January, we’ve already
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Legislators advanced a proposal Monday to legalize recreational marijuana across New Mexico and lift the state’s tight restrictions on production for its medical marijuana program. After more than six hours of testimony and deliberations, a legislative committee on health issues endorsed one Democrat-backed House bill and sidelined a second in efforts to
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LIVE BLOG: Latest reaction to Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate on Saturday acquitted Donald Trump of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation to come to terms with the violence sparked
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UPDATE, Feb. 13: Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday urged Texans to stay alert as the National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings or watches for most of the state. He also said experts fear that electricity demand during the frigid temperatures could cause power outages. RELATED STORY: Winter Weather Advisory in El Paso, Dona Ana
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s impeachment trial. RELATED STORY: Watch LIVE: Closing arguments in Trump impeachment trial That’s according to a source familiar with McConnell’s thinking who was not authorized to publicly discuss the decision and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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LIVE BLOG: The Latest details from the Trump impeachment trial WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate impeachment trial concluded day four on Friday with a question and answer portion that followed roughly three hours of arguments from Donald Trump’s defense team. One of the first questions came from Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s been two years this week since former President Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally in El Paso. And his re-election campaign still owes the city more than a half million dollars — $569,204 to be exact. “The city is pursuing and will continue to pursue payment,” El Paso Mayor Oscar
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors, including New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, at the White House on Friday as part of his push to give financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic to state and local governments. As part of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus package, Biden wants
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico has now reported nearly 180,000 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, including more than 540 additional cases on Thursday. The number of deaths of New Mexico residents related to Covid-19 is now 3,479, with 18 additional deaths reported Thursday. Included in the latest fatalities were five victims from
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WASHINGTON, DC — In day three of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, a U.S. House prosecutor invoked mentions of Cowboys Trump leader Couy Griffin and El Paso’s Walmart shooting tragedy. Griffin, an Otero County Commissioner, is facing federal criminal charges for his presence in a restricted area of the U.S. Capitol during
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DALLAS, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that announcements are likely “coming soon” about relaxing Covid-19 restrictions in Texas as cases and hospitalizations continue to drop. Abbott spoke at a round-table discussion in Dallas with small business owners about the state’s role in supporting small businesses during the pandemic. As more Texans continue to get
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Tribune hosted a discussion with Texas education commissioner Mike Morath on Thursday about the state of public education in Texas. Among the topics included the STAAR test, funding last session’s school finance bill, learning loss, broadband access and more. Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Morath as education commissioner in 2016. In this role,
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LIVE BLOG: The latest developments in the Trump impeachment trial WASHINGTON, DC — Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as overwhelmed police begged
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The New Mexico Senate pressed forward Wednesday with pandemic-related financial relief measures, including minimal-interest loans to small businesses that have been battered by the virus and emergency health restrictions. The Democrat-led chamber overwhelmingly approved a trio of bills that also would offer tax breaks for restaurants and a temporary waiver on liquor
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at a Covid-19 briefing on Wednesday said New Mexico would be ending mandatory self-quarantine requirements for visitors and residents arriving in the state. The governor and state health officials cited what they described as “a brighter pandemic outlook” for the change in policy. Under the governor’s
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — A wide array of Senate Republicans harshly criticized former President Donald Trump’s defense team on the opening day of his second impeachment trial, arguing that Trump attorney Bruce Castor had delivered a rambling and unfocused argument in making the case that the proceedings are unconstitutional. “I thought the President’s lawyer, the first
Continue Reading LIVE BLOG: The latest details on the Donald Trump impeachment trial WASHINGTON, DC — Senators in Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial agreed Tuesday afternoon to consider the case, rejecting an attempt by the former president’s defense team and some Republican allies to halt the trial because he is no longer in office. The vote
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, during his first solo news conference Monday afternoon at City Hall, touted vaccination success in El Paso despite complaints from some residents about confusion and difficulties in getting appointments. At the news conference, Lesser wouldn’t commit to supporting calls for an audit of the city’s vaccination
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas — Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Wright of Texas has died, his congressional office announced in a statement Monday, saying that he had been admitted to the hospital after contracting Covid-19. “Congressman Ron Wright passed away peacefully at the age of 67 on Feb. 7, 2021. His wife Susan was by his side and
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AUSTIN, Texas — In August 2019, Texas was devastated by the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Midland-Odessa that left 30 people dead and dozens more injured. The massacres were so shocking and gruesome that it moved the state’s two top Republicans to do what was previously unthinkable — talk about gun control. Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt.
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EL PASO, Texas — South El Paso residents may get a knock on their door from Beto O’Rourke on Saturday. The former El Paso congressman is one of dozens of volunteers who were canvasing the city’s 79901 Zip code to register residents for the Covid-19 vaccine. Volunteers in north Texas were doing the same in
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin is headed home to New Mexico after nearly three weeks in a Washington jail, after a judge on Friday said she will trust Griffin to show up for trial in connection with the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell on
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AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan shook up the chamber’s leadership this week, signaling who his top lieutenants will be during his first session overseeing the lower chamber. But a Democrat — state Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso — is once again serving as speaker pro tem, a position he held under former House Speaker Dennis Bonnen
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — New Mexico is challenging a decision by a federal court to combine the state’s lawsuit over contamination at Holloman and Cannon U.S. Air Force bases with similar litigation brought by hundreds of other jurisdictions around the country. The New Mexico attorney general’s office and the state Environment Department announced they have filed a
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — The New Mexico state Senate is wading into ambitious reform proposals designed to rein in the use of deadly force by police, expand cannabis sales, provide free college tuition and criminalize threats against public officials. More than 150 bills were introduced as the state Senate holds a rare floor session amid the pandemic
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