By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 Maverick County resident Vanessa Hernandez recently addressed Maverick County Commissioners Court during the citizen’s communication agenda of the meeting held on Monday, July 27, 2015, advocating for the placement of speed bumps on Maverick County roads and streets while…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass City Council unanimously approved an agreement with Halff Associates, Inc., for professional engineering and consulting services to perform a flood and drainage study and evaluation of the drainage areas in Rancho Escondido Subdivision, North Bibb Street…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2013 Domestic Violence cases regularly continue to dominate the number of emergency telephone calls made to and responded to by both the Eagle Pass Police Department and the Maverick County Sheriff Department on a monthly basis. Within the last six…

by Phoebe Tollefson, Medill News Service, The Texas Tribune July 28, 2015 WASHINGTON — As Congress barrels toward a Friday deadline to fund the nation’s highway system, transportation experts across the country are responding to ever-tighter budgets with simple but significant cost-saving changes. In Texas, federal funding makes up about…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune July 28, 2015 More than 2,000 undocumented women and children being held in “deplorable” conditions at federal immigration detention centers are supposed to be released under a recent federal judge’s order. But how long that takes and what happens to them next remains unclear,…

by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune July 28, 2015 Texas probably will see a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and coastal storm-related losses in the coming decades if nothing is done to mitigate a changing climate, according to a new study commissioned by a bipartisan group of prominent policymakers and…

(Press Release) The Middle Rio Grande Development Council held a meeting on Thursday July 23rd at the Uvalde Fairplex Facility, on the possibility of having to decommission the Regional Trunk Radio System (RTRS) if funding is not made available by state and federal funds. The presentation by Forrest Anderson, 9-1-1…

by Emily Hoerner, Medill News Service, The Texas Tribune July 26, 2015 WASHINGTON — A growing number of Texans are seeking treatment for methamphetamine addiction, reversing a downward trend in abuse in the state since a 2006 federal law banned over-the-counter sales of medicine containing the synthetic drug pseudoephedrine. Last…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune July 24, 2015 A coalition of ranchers, environmentalists and other disgruntled landowners is claiming a small victory in its long-shot battle to block a hefty pipeline planned to carry natural gas beneath 143 miles of largely untouched Big Bend-area land into Mexico. The Federal…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune July 24, 2015 WASHINGTON — There are few remaining places in modern life where strict decorum is expected as it is in the halls and on the floor of the United States Senate. And on Friday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas shattered one…