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…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees held their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, considering former Eagle Pass High School Principal Vale Moreno’s Level III Grievance against Superintendent Gilberto Gonzalez reassignment of him to Ray…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The traditional annual Eagle Pass International Friendship Festival will be held during March 18-27, 2016, announced Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sandra Martinez. One of the highlight of the International Friendship Festival is the huge Amusement Carnival,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Many Maverick County residents attended the Maverick County Commissioners Court meeting held on Monday, February 22, 2016 to anxiously await Commissioners Court action against several illegal salvage or junkyards within Maverick County near residential subdivisions and to express their…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Eagle Pass Business Journal did an exclusive investigation of the voting participation rates among Maverick County registered voters during the March 1, 2016 Democratic Party Primary Election, finding that Middle-Age voters between the ages of 41-65 years old…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Eagle Pass’s Teen Driver Advisory Board presented the City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council a report concerning the status of Teen Driving in the State of Texas at their February 2, 2016 meeting. Pablo Garcia and Miguel Maldonado,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Maverick County Hospital District Chief Executive Officer Terri Patlan-Contreras has been selected by the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission to participate in its prestigious 2016 Leaders across Borders Program, announced Robert Guerrero, Chief of Border Health Services for the…

CITY OF EAGLE PASS SEVERE STORMS ALERT March 8, 2016 The City of Eagle Pass has received notice of severe weather alert is in effect for our region this evening, and into early Wednesday.  Severe thunderstorms with a possibility of hail and strong winds.  Persons who live in low lying…