By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Computer technology helps governmental entities and their employees to record, store, transfer, and use large data in a more productive and efficient manner. However, computer technology can be easily hacked or compromised if not protected by sophisticated software programs…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Domestic violence is a threat to not only adults as many children are affected by it in their family home or personally according to 2014 statistics released by the Texas Department of Family Protective Services (TDFPS), including Maverick…

by Julián Aguilar and Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Aug. 19, 2015 Throughout August, The Texas Tribune will feature 31 ways Texans’ lives will change because of new laws that take effect Sept. 1. Check out our story calendar for more. One way or another, the 84th Legislature was bound…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Maverick County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a proposed tax rate increase for 2015-2016 fiscal year by over nine (.091385) cents per $100 valuation at their Monday, August 17, 2015 meeting, resulting an increase from its current tax rate of…

by Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune Aug. 19, 2015 LAREDO – Incompetence, local politics, lack of resources — all have been blamed for the foul tap water that periodically streams from the faucets of about 8,000 residents in two small border communities. In Laredo’s red brick courthouse Tuesday, prosecutors began…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Maverick County Hospital District (MCHD) Board of Directors held their second public hearing on the proposed tax rate for the 2015-2016 fiscal year as well as the proposed Operating Budget for 2015-2016 on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, resulting…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Aug. 18, 2015 A Travis County prosecutor on Tuesday asked a jury to convict a former high-ranking official with the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas of securing an $11 million grant for a biotechnology firm “by fraud.” Jerry Cobbs, the former chief…

by Morgan Smith, The Texas Tribune Aug. 18, 2015 Throughout August, The Texas Tribune will feature 31 ways Texans’ lives will change because of new laws that take effect Sept. 1. Check out our story calendar for more. When the Texas Supreme Court ruled that children under 14 years old…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 A 46 year old woman, Olga Del Rio Ramos, from Quemado, Texas was found dead with a gunshot wound on her chest by a son on Friday, August 14, 2015, at approximately 11:30 P.M., announced Maverick County Sheriff Tom…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Aug. 16, 2015 Throughout August, The Texas Tribune will feature 31 ways Texans’ lives will change because of new laws that take effect Sept. 1. Check out our story calendar for more. In Texas, disabled or elderly residents can currently receive mail-in ballots for…