By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a resolution to hire an independent expert accountant or auditor to audit all the books, records, and accounts of Maverick County Auditor Fidencio Ortiz at their regular monthly meeting held on Monday January…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court approved the hiring of Austin, Texas attorney David Frederick to represent Maverick County in Dos Republicas Coal Partnership’s revised coal mining wastewater discharge permit before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and authorized Frederick…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County Commissioners Court unanimously approved to pay a fine of $1,100 to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued against Maverick County on December 12, 2014 for violations of the Texas Health and Safety Code and the…

Austin, TX — State Representative Poncho Nevárez was officially sworn in yesterday as the Texas Legislature convened for its 84th regular session, which runs until June 1st. Following the oath of office ceremony, the Honorable Joe Straus was re-elected Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. “Surrounded by my family…

Austin, TX – With sexual assault numbers rising on college campuses around Texas, Representative Poncho Nevárez has filed HB 699, which is intended to ensure that the state university systems are enforcing these sexual assault policies on their respective campuses. This bill will make it mandatory for each university system…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,300 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated value of more than $1 million in five different incidents, in recent weeks. On Dec. 19 at approximately 6 p.m., agents from the Eagle Pass Station,…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Eagle Passan Sandy Marie Esquivel graduated from Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in Kinesiology and a minor in English at the Winter Commencement Ceremony held at the American…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2015, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A former prisoner at Kinney County Detention Center in Brackettville, Texas, filed a lawsuit against Community Education Centers, Inc. and Randall Dennis Bullard in the 63rd Judicial District Court, Kinney County, Texas on March 14, 2014, alleging that during…

Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Jason Pulliam of San Antonio as justice of the 4th Court of Appeals for a term to expire at the 2016 general election. Pulliam will be the first African American justice to serve on the court. Pulliam is judge of Bexar County Court at Law…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Jan. 12, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. — For a Chicago Bulls fan, President Obama had high praise Monday as he honored the San Antonio Spurs for their 2014 NBA World Championship. “It’s never easy celebrating a non-Bulls team,” he joked at the traditional White House…