By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Eagle Pass Independent School District (EPISD) Board of Trustees are scheduled to meet in a special board meeting on Thursday, January 21, 2016, at 12 Noon at the District’s Central Office Board Room, located at 1420 Eidson Road,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 A ten women and two men Maverick County Jury found Homero Herrera, age 65, guilty of murdering his wife, Blanca Estela Espinoza de Herrera, age 49, at their residence, located at 213 Medina Street in Eagle Pass, Texas on…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Eagle Pass High School Principal Vale Moreno filed a grievance against Eagle Pass Independent School District Superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez concerning his reassignment to Ray Darr Elementary on Friday, January 15, 2016. Moreno complains of his sudden and unexpected reassignment…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Nellie Mae Glass Elementary Falcons won the 39th Annual Eagle Pass Independent School District UIL Academic Sweepstakes Championship with an impressive 225.5 points on Saturday, January 16, 2016, announced EPISD Superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez. Winning second place were the…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Maverick County Sheriff  Tom Schmerber announced that Cibolo, Texas resident Francisco Luna, age 31, accidentally shot himself in his right leg while showing his 9MM handgun to friends in Las Quintas Fronterizas Subdivision in Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday,…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Professional Boxing aficionados on the U.S.-Mexico border will get to see the first women’s professional boxing match in Eagle Pass, Texas between Mayela “La Cobrita” Perez from Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico and Ebony “Storm” Rivers from North Carolina on Saturday,…

Washington D.C. – In the last week, 121 mothers and children were brought to the South Texas Residential Family Center in Dilley, Texas, after being rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project reviewed the cases of 13 families, filed appeals for 12,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Former State of Coahuila, Mexico Governor and National President of the PRI Party, Humberto Moreira, was arrested on January 16, 2016 at the Madrid, Spain International Airport by Spanish authorities on a warrant of arrest from the United States….

OP-ED:  By Senator Carlos I. Uresti Legislators like to say that we should craft a state budget with the same care and fiscal responsibility we use when we are creating our family’s budget around the kitchen table. In my house, the basic needs of my children always come first. My…

New Mexicali brewery expected to cost approximately $1.5 billion with completion in 4 – 5 years Additional investments in land, water rights, infrastructure and other site requirements at Mexicali location expected to approximate $500 million to accommodate scalability to 20 million hectoliters Incremental Nava brewery expansion currently underway to increase…