{"id":289524,"date":"2026-05-12T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:02:08","slug":"state-sen-blanco-seeks-input-on-possible-renaming-of-cesar-chavez-border-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289524\/","title":{"rendered":"State Sen. Blanco seeks input on possible renaming of Cesar Chavez Border Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Texas state Sen. Cesar Blanco, D-El Paso, wants to hear from El Paso about possibly renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cesar-Chavez-Highway-renaming.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2635496\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blanco said he wants input from the community on the \u201cpotential redesignation\u201d of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a series of sex abuse allegations surfaced against the late civil rights activist and labor leader, Chavez, who has been dead since 1993. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about making sure any decision reflects El Paso\u2019s voice,\u201d Blanco said. <\/p>\n<p>The survey is open through Aug. 31, and every response will be reviewed, Blanco said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour input will help inform how the office evaluates potential next steps,\u201d reads the introductory text for the survey.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdgna0Wp2Zf4UBUmMxdISwZlSC39E8fJ78YygQiH917evDuqQ\/viewform\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdgna0Wp2Zf4UBUmMxdISwZlSC39E8fJ78YygQiH917evDuqQ\/viewform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/forms.gle\/iu8r8kfwzLK5JmR4A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Texas state Sen. Cesar Blanco, D-El Paso, wants to hear from El Paso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-289524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}