In response to an Eagle Pass Business Journal inquiry, the UIL has made the following response: Mr. Calderon, The UIL has received incident reports regarding how the officials were selected in the Mission Sharyland vs. Eagle Pass baseball game on May 17. At this time, the UIL has gathered information…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is announcing today the SBA Veteran Pledge Initiative, a commitment by its top national, regional and community lenders to collectively increase their lending activity to veterans by five percent per year for the next five years. Oftentimes, veterans face challenges in raising…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass and Maverick County, Texas residential single family property owners are shell shocked regarding the exorbitant and unconscionable proposed 2013 Maverick County Appraisal District’s 25.19% to 26.96% increase of residential property appraisal valuations from last year’s…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass native and beauty queen, Yarah Aiza Pena Mansour, has been selected by Telemundo to host its new television game show,”The Bus Stop Game” or “El Juego Parada del Bus” in Spanish, after a national talent…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 The Maverick County Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 8562 will host the annual Maverick County Memorial Day Ceremony on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Maverick County Lake Veterans Memorial Park in Eagle…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Mayor Ramsey English Cantu and City Councilmen Rudy Villalpando and Luis E. Sifuentes were officially sworn-in to new four year terms after being re-elected by the citizens of the City of Eagle Pass, Texas during the May…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon Live from the Harlandale ISD Frank M. Tejada Sports Complex Baseball Field The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles rallied in the bottom of the seventh inning scoring two runs to tie the game at 9-9 and send it into extra innings and scored the winning…

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By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 The Mission Sharyland High School Rattlers Head Baseball Coach Barton Bickerton has filed an Incident Report with the University Interscholastic League (U.I.L.) in Austin, Texas protesting the selection method utilized by the Eagle Pass High School Eagles…

(Brett Deering/Getty Images) By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Mother Nature unleashed the largest, mega-Tornado in the history of the United States of America on the suburb community of Moore, Oklahoma, adjacent to Oklahoma City, flattening almost the entire community including over 500…