By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 A preliminary report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the large fish kill on Elm Creek and adjacent ponds near Eagle Pass, Texas due to the October 8-9, 2015 flooding is inconclusive as to the potential cause…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The month of November has been designated as National Diabetes Awareness Month by the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes is a modern day epidemic that affects millions of people across the United States putting their overall health in jeopardy. Maverick…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Maverick County Commissioners Court approved two agenda items during their meeting held on Monday, October 26,2015 in which they moved forward with auditing the Maverick County Sheriff’s Department Confiscated Funds for the years 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011- 2012 under…

COLLEGE STATION, Oct. 28, 2015 – The website Priceonomics.com ranks Texas A&M University as the top institution of higher education in the nation for the success of low-income students. Based on data obtained from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, Priceonomics editors created a list of schools that are…

Oliver Bernstein AUSTIN, TEXAS – The number of Texas children who are uninsured declined last year, but the state is in a dead heat with Alaska for the highest rate of uninsured children in the nation, according to a report released today. The report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Mobile Service Office is scheduled to be in Eagle Pass, Texas on Monday, November 2, 2015 at the parking lot of BBVA Compass Bank, 2310 East Main Street, to provide free professional services to…

by Matthew Watkins, The Texas Tribune Oct. 26, 2015 The University of Texas at Austin needs to consider race in admissions if it wants a diverse, representative student body, the school told the U.S. Supreme Court 0n Monday in a 70-page brief filed in advance of oral arguments in the…

Late Friday in Del Rio, a federal jury convicted 36–year-old Xavier Cardona and his 32-year-old brother, Michael Cardona of distributing approximately two  kilograms of cocaine in the Eagle Pass, TX, area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs,…

Director Anthony Ruiz of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) San Antonio District Office announced that SBA opened a Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Eagle Pass to meet the needs of businesses and residents who were affected by the flooding that occurred October 8 – 9. The center opened Tuesday,…

Written by Walter Ewing After 9/11, the immigration detention system in the United States began to expand dramatically, with very little in the way of transparency or accountability as to how the system operated or what happened to the people who were detained. Not surprisingly, stories began to surface of…