Here's why now is a great time to subscribe to the El Paso Times
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A subscription to the El Paso Times has never been a better value. A subscription gets you access to all news, including breaking, sports, entertainment and business reports.
A subscription allows you to understand better what's occurring along the border with the influx of migrants. A subscription will enable you to understand better all the developments of the state Legislature and El Paso City Council.
A subscription allows you to be the first in El Paso to read stories about the murder of the Bandidos El Paso chapter president.
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Subscriber-exclusive stories from El Paso Times
In the past few weeks, we've published numerous stories only available to subscribers of the El Paso Times. Here are just a few of the stories you won't find anywhere else:
Politics
El Paso city Rep. Brian Kennedy faces a second ethics complaint over a potential conflict of interest that prevented him from voting on the Downtown arena proposal.
The Texas Ethics Commission found "credible evidence" that former city Rep. Claudia Rodriguez violated state ethics laws during last year's campaign.
More than $25 million in federal funding is headed for 14 El Paso agencies as part of Congress' $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act. Here are the projects that will change the El Paso's water, health care and pet ownership landscape
El Paso's representatives in Austin have focused on a number of hot-button issues, including gun laws, abortion, animal cruelty and mail-in voting. Here's a list of all the bills filed.
Conflict of interest complaint against city Rep. Brian Kennedy bound for ethics commission
Immigration
An Afghan mother gave birth at a Fort Bliss refugee camp. Eighteen months later, the family still hasn't received his birth certificate.
Although other ports of entry in Texas and California beat El Paso in total pork products seized annually, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's El Paso field office is the only one that consistently reports large seizures of the lunch meat known in Spanish as salchichón.
The city's Office of Emergency Management issued a 28-day, $1.5 million contract to San Antonio-based Endeavors to provide migrant reception and shelter operations on the city's behalf, beginning Dec. 28, 2022.
Business and Development
Former El Paso Chamber CEO David Jerome returns, gets executive job at airport
The pandemic's aftereffects are the last straw for the owner of Downtown El Paso's The Texas Store, which is closing after 105 years in business.
El Paso restaurant inspections: Here's how businesses scored.
Texas regulators renew a major air permit for Marathon's El Paso oil refinery as a renewal application for another major permit looms.
Sports
All you need to know about the 2023 high school softball season and a look at 20 players to watch.
Here is a look at the El Paso Times' All-City football team, led by Pebble Hills quarterback Gael Ochoa as Player of the Year.
Twenty El Paso high school baseball players to watch and top storylines.
Food and Dining
The word on social media is that Midtown Spirits, a restaurant at 2224 Yandell Drive that opened in March, is the place to go to if you remember Ben's Tacos.
The popular Salt + Honey Bakery Cafe, known for great breakfast and brunch in Five Points, recently announced it's moving to a new location.
With the number of food trucks and individual food vendors in El Paso, it's good to know a commercial kitchen is now available for their use.
All this work is reported, edited and photographed by a staff that calls El Paso home. It informs, it holds officials accountable and it entertains and delights. A subscription helps support these journalists, our work and our community.
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