By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors approved its proposed 2016-2017 Fiscal Year Budget of $8,052,027 (Million) on a split vote of 3-1 at its August 30, 2016 meeting held at the District’s Second Floor Conference Room in Eagle…

(Press Release) In Del Rio, Texas, a federal judge sentenced two brothers, owners and operators of the Real Street Paint and Body Shop in Eagle Pass, to federal prison for distributing approximately six kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Maverick County Commissioners Court will be seeking to increase Maverick County taxpayers’ ad valorem property taxes for fiscal year 2016-2017 from the current tax rate of .5850 cents per $100 valuation to the proposed .586535 cents per $100 valuation,…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Sept. 6, 2016 A Libertarian candidate for Texas railroad commissioner is taking the agency to task for its failure to track toxic injections into underground zones that could hold drinking water. “It is clear that the Railroad Commission is again failing to protect our…

by Morgan Smith, The Texas Tribune Sept. 6, 2016 To improve pre-kindergarten education, Texas schools should keep class sizes small and student-teacher ratios low, according to a newly released state report. The study, conducted by the Texas Education Agency and the Department of Family and Protective Services, recommended a limit…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Sept. 2, 2016 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. That big political race on the surface hides a very quiet state ballot down below. In fact, a surprising number of the members of the…

by Nicole Cobler, The Texas Tribune Sept. 6, 2016 Saying that a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook is “dripping with racism and intolerance,” several educators and students are calling for the State Board of Education to reject the controversial book. “It is an utter shame we must deal with racially offensive…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Texas will no longer help low-income families pay their electric bills. Lite-Up Texas, a program that offered discounts to hundreds of thousands of poor Texas families over the years, has run out of money and the discounts ended on Aug. 31, the Public Utility…

(Press Release) On Friday, September 2, 2016, a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division and The Eagle Pass Police Department Criminal Investigation Division was conducted. The operation initiated with The Eagle Pass Police Department Special Response Team affecting a search warrant on a residence…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks blanked the visiting Laredo LBJ High School Wolves 21-0 in a key non-district game on Friday, September 2, 2016, at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial…