COLLEGE STATION – Efforts to normalize U.S. and Cuba diplomatic relations will have potential positive implications for Texas agriculture, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist. Dr. Parr Rosson, who heads the agricultural economics department at Texas A&M University in College Station, said there will be immediate increases…

The following graduates received their degrees from Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College on Dec. 13, 2014 during the winter commencement ceremony held inside the John Harrell Auditorium on the campus of Uvalde High School in Uvalde, Texas. Leonardo Esquivel earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. He…

AUSTIN – Continuing its momentum of strong job growth, Texas added 34,800 seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs in November, for a total of 441,200 jobs added since last year. This broke the state’s previous record set in October, as the state’s annual job growth expanded to a new high for…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court unanimously approved the reading of a resolution authorizing the employment of an expert accountant or auditor to audit all books, records, and accounts of Maverick County Auditor Fidencio Ortiz and to waive the County’s professional…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Eagle Pass Mayor Ramsey English Cantu announced that the City of Eagle Pass was awarded a $350,000 grant from the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) Community Block Grant Development Program to be used for repairing the City’s main drainage…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. According to Maverick County Sheriff’s Department records during January to December 2014, a total of six persons were killed in highway accidents in Maverick County in 2014 while another 23 persons were injured among 35 highway accidents. Maverick County…

By: Jose G. Landa. Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a Feasibility Study/Presidential Permit for an International Bridge at their special meeting held on Monday, December 29, 2014, at the Maverick County Courthouse, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The traditional swearing-in and oath of office of Maverick County elected-officials in the November 4, 2014 general election will be held on Thursday, January 1, 2014, at 2 P.M. in two separate ceremonies at the Maverick County Courthouse and…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,200 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated value of $1 million in four different incidents, in recent weeks. On Dec. 6 at approximately 2 p.m., agents from the Comstock Station, conducting linewatch operations,…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions totaled 486,651 nationwide in Fiscal Year 2014, an increase this year largely due to the increase in unaccompanied children and family units who turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents in South Texas this summer. While Border Patrol apprehensions of Mexican nationals…