by Jordan Rudner, The Texas Tribune March 16, 2016 Editor’s note: This story has been updated. Despite pledges from Senate Republicans to deny a hearing or vote to any nominee this year, President Barack Obama nominated D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning. Garland…

by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune March 14, 2016 Tens of thousands of Texans live in places where the drinking water contains toxic levels of arsenic — a known carcinogen — and the state isn’t doing enough to discourage them from consuming it, according to a new report from an…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune March 15, 2016 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. The governor of Texas thinks that fraud in the electoral system that put him and others in office is “rampant.” He can’t back that up….

DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,078 pounds of narcotics, valued at $1.2 million in nine different incidents. “Del Rio Sector is devoted to the security of this nation by preventing illicit narcotic profits from being earned and returned…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune March 14, 2016 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Want to know what the president thinks about voter turnout in Texas? “The folks who are governing the good state of Texas aren’t interested in…

The Department of Justice today announced a package of resources to assist state and local efforts to reform harmful and unlawful practices in certain jurisdictions related to the assessment and enforcement of fines and fees.  The resources are meant to support the ongoing work of state judges, court administrators, policymakers…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune March 11, 2016 * Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. Texas’ Republican leadership has stifled voter turnout, and the public sector should do more to encourage online voting and other civic engagement, President Barack Obama said in an interview Friday with Tribune…

By: Ian Millhiser It’s probably about to get a whole lot harder for hundreds of thousands of Texans to exercise their right to vote. Last August, a three-judge panel of the conservative United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that Texas’s voter ID law violates the Voting…

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Today, business, trade and economic development organizations along the U.S. – Mexico Border held the first private sector-led meeting with the mission of strengthening border ties and addressing the unique economic promise of the border region. More than a dozen organizations convened in Las Vegas, Nevada,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, in San Antonio, Texas sentenced Mexican media mogul Rolando Gonzalez Trevino, who owns a broadcast television station in Eagle Pass, Texas located on North Veterans…