By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 All Maverick County citizens who are 18 years old and registered to vote are invited to apply as a candidate for the upcoming Eagle Pass Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Eagle Pass, Texas downtown retail merchants report being paid with counterfeited and fake $20 U.S. Dollar bills during the last few months, announced Eagle Pass Police Chief Alberto Guajardo.  The use of the counterfeited $20 U.S. Dollar bills has been…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The Maverick County Hospital District Board of Directors approved an $8,052,027 (million) Operating and Capital Equipment Budget for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year at a Budget Workshop held on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 by a split vote of 3 in…

  By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas Mayor Ramsey English Cantu announced that Jessica Ortiz has been named as the new City Health Inspector as part of the City Council’s earlier passage of the City Health Ordinance. Ortiz will be…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016 Maverick County Sheriff Department Chief Deputy Roberto De Leon announced that an Eagle Pass woman, not yet identified, was run over by a hit and run driver of an automobile on Monday, August 15, 2016, while walking on Las Quintas…

By: Nick McCarvel RIO DE JANEIRO – Simone Biles ended her Rio 2016 Olympic Games trip just like she started it: On top of the world. The all-around champion and gold medalist in the team event as well as vault, Biles soared to a record-tying fourth gold medal with her…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Aug. 16, 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is leading Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by just 6 percentage points in deep-red Texas, according to a new poll. Trump gets 44 percent support to Clinton’s 38 percent in the survey, which was done by Democratic-leaning…

by Isabelle Taft, The Texas Tribune Aug. 14, 2016 Oliver Hill, 81, grew up in segregated San Antonio. He graduated in 1952 from the all-black Phillis Wheatley High School, named for the famous poet who was brought to America as a slave. When Robert E. Lee High School opened across…

by Patrick Svitek and Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Aug. 16, 2016 SAN ANTONIO — The Democratic candidate wants to make the election about Donald Trump. The Republican wants nothing to do with his party’s presidential nominee. It’s a familiar dynamic unfolding in many congressional battles across the country, but…

(Press Release) AUSTIN – Eligible Texas women on Medicaid can go straight to their pharmacist to pick up mosquito repellent, Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Charles Smith announced today. Texas Medicaid has issued a standing order for mosquito repellent prescriptions for women who are between the ages of 10…