By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Maverick County Public Facility Corporation (PFC) held its monthly meeting on Monday, May 11, 2015, and Certified Public Accountant Ismael “Milo” Martinez presented the Fiscal Year End (FYE) 2013 Audit Report to the Board of Directors subject to…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A large contingency of Maverick County residents from Las Brisas Subdivision spoke during the Citizens Communication part of the agenda at the Maverick County Commissioners Court meeting held on Monday May 11, 2015 to denounce the establishment of an…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass Independent School District (EPSD) Board of Trustees named veteran EPISD Police Officer Jose “Joe” Ramos as the new EPISD Police Chief at their meeting held on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. After discussing the agenda item in…

by Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News, The Texas Tribune May 14, 2015 LOCKHART — The call from the nursing home came just before dawn, jolting Martha Sherwood awake. During the night, fire ants had swarmed over her 85-year-old mother, injecting their stinging venom into Natalie Sealy’s face, arms, hands and…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court approved the appointment of Esteban Vicente to the Maverick County Solid Waste Authority (MCSWA) Board of Directors at their meeting held on Monday, May 11, 2015. The MCSWA operates the Maverick County Landfill on El…

by Alexa Ura and Annie Daniel, The Texas Tribune May 14, 2015 Following the dramatic increase in the number of Asians migrating to Texas, the state demographer found that a new pattern of immigration is emerging in the state. Though people born in Latin American countries continue to make up…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A rollover automobile accident occurred on Friday, May 8, 2015 at around 6:30 P.M. in proximity of FM 1588, also known as Thompson Road, in Maverick County close to the entrance of the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership’s Eagle Pass…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Brackettville Animal Lovers Association’s (BALA) lawsuit against the City of Brackettville, Texas and its Mayor Andres Rodriguez took an interesting twist on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, as all the parties announced to United States District Court Judge Alia…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune May 12, 2015 More than half of Texas women faced at least one barrier to accessing reproductive health care in the years after lawmakers dramatically altered the state’s family planning services, according to a new report by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. The project’s…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Del Rio Association of Federal Attorneys celebrated its 2015 Law Day Banquet and Scholarship Fund Raiser on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at the San Felipe Country Club in Del Rio, Texas, with Pete Gallego as the Keynote Speaker….