In today’s edition Tuesday’s Time Warp installment, we look at the first time that El Paso almost lost Ft. Bliss. Ft. Bliss is a significant component of El Paso’s economy. Most readers likely remember that El Paso almost lost Ft. Bliss because of the Army’s Base Realignment and Closures (BRAC) program. But before the 2005 BRAC closure threat, in 1910, El Paso almost lost Ft. Bliss to Arizona who was lobbying hard to get the army’s newest post construction. As evidenced by the presence of Ft. Bliss today, El Paso was able to keep the military post.
El Paso Herald Post Front Page for December 19, 1910, see Danger of El Paso Losing Ft. Bliss article.
The Tuesday Time Warp Series
The El Paso Herald Post Tuesday Time Warp series takes you back to the news headlines making in the El Paso Herald Post. The El Paso Herald Post began life as the El Paso Herald in 1881. From 1901 through 1931, the newspaper changed its masthead from the El Paso Herald Post, to the El Paso Daily Herald until it settled on the El Paso Herald again. Through a merger for survival with Scripps-Howard in 1931, the newspaper became the El Paso Herald-Post. It ceased publishing its print edition on October 11, 1997, when it printed its last edition.
It remained in the history books until Chris Babcock brought it back as an online edition newspaper in 2015, until shuttering for a second time in 2021.
On September 1, 2025, Martín Paredes brought back the online edition to help fill a much-needed void on local news reporting.
The Tuesday Time Warp Series looks into the past through the El Paso Herald Post print edition from 1881 to 1997. Each Tuesday we select an edition and highlight what we believe was the important news of the day.
Look for the Tuesday Time Warp Series each Tuesday morning looking back into El Paso’s history through the El Paso Herald Post – today’s digital newspaper rooted in 1881 and reimagined for today.
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