Unless Congress acts by March 1st, a series of automatic cuts—called the sequester—will take effect that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs, and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform. There is no question that we need to…

WASHINGTON, DC—President Obama used this week’s address to urge Congress to stop the harmful automatic cuts that threaten thousands of jobs and affect our national security—called the sequester—from taking effect on March 1st.  The President and Congressional Democrats have already put forward solutions to avoid these cuts and reduce the…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 The Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas boom has claimed another life as a Corpus Christi, Texas man, Richard Robert Sanchez, who worked in the Eagle Ford Shale, died in a motorcycle accident on Friday, February 22,…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro personally met with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena-Nieto at Los Pinos, the Mexican equivalent of the U.S. Whitehouse, on Thursday, February 21, 2013, and both discussed San Antonio’s important role in international trade…

Purchase your corporate table or ticket for the 19th Annual Eagle Pass Business Journal Awards to be held Saturday, March 30, 2013 @ 7:30 P.M. El Residencial Reception Hall 3149 El Indio Highway Eagle Pass, Texas 78852 (830) 757-2705 epbj@sbcglobal.net

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 IBC Bank-Eagle Pass President and Chief Executive Officer Hector J. Cerna was named the 2012 Citizen of the Year by the Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce at its 86th Annual Chamber Banquet on Thursday, February 21, 2013….

By: Ricardo E. Calderon An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Eagle Pass Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Sonia Valdez-Junfin, was involved in a two automobile accident on Highway 277 North, about 12 miles north of Eagle Pass, on Thursday, February 21, 2013, at approximately 4:00 p.m., escaping with…

By: Jose G. Landa An Exclusive Eagle Pass Business Journal News Story/Copyright 2013 Prominent Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico veterinarian, Dr. Gerardo Chapa Garcia, was shot this afternoon, Thursday, February 21, 2013, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, by unknown assailants and managed to get into his pick-up truck and drove himself to…