By: Sen. Carlos Uresti House and Senate budget writers unveiled their starting-point budgets for 2014-15 in week two of the legislative session. While this first peek was somewhat disappointing because many of the cuts imposed last time are still there, it is early in the legislative process, and I am…

Newly-elected State of Texas Fourth Court of Appeals Justice Patricia O. Alvarez of Laredo, Texas was sworn-in as the newest Associate Justice of the prestigious Fourth Court of Appeals of San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at the Maverick County Historical Courthouse, located at 501…

The Maverick County Junior Livestock show will kick-off its 2013 activities on Sunday, January 20, 2013, with the Miss Maverick County Junior Livestock Show(MCJLS) Beauty Pageant which will be held at the Zan Mathies Showbarn located at the Maverick County Lake in Eagle Pass, Texas at 3:00 p.m. The 2013…

Del Rio News-Herald Longtime judge and former county attorney Carl Pendergrass died Sunday after battling cancer. He was 69. Pendergrass, who was appointed 83rd Judicial District Judge on Oct. 29, 1999, by then governor George W. Bush, spent much of his time in Del Rio dedicated to the community through…

By: Jose G. Landa Eagle Pass Business Journal The Eagle Pass Independent School District (EPISD) Board of Trustees unanimously approved to name the EPISD Student Activity Center Football Stadium “The Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Football Stadium” at their Tuesday, January 15, 2013, regular Board meeting, reversing its previous policy not to…

America’s most dynamic and rising political star, Mayor Julian Castro of the City of San Antonio, Texas, has officially accepted the Eagle Pass Business Journal’s invitation to be the Keynote Speaker at the 19th Annual Eagle Pass Business Journal Awards, announced Ricardo E. Calderon, Publisher. “We are extremely honored and…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon Eagle Pass Business Journal© Newly elected State of Texas Fourth Court of Appeals Justice Patricia O. Alvarez of Laredo, Texas will be sworn-in as the newest justice of the prestigious Fourth Court of Appeals on Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at the Old Maverick…

By: Jose G. Landa Eagle Pass Business Journal© Maverick County community volunteer, Jose Reyna, a resident of Precinct 2 of Maverick County, Texas, is requesting the State of Texas to file a petition of removal pursuant to Chapter 87 of the Texas Local Government Code against indicted Maverick County Justice…

By: Jose G. Landa Eagle Pass Business Journal© The Maverick County District Clerk’s Office under the direction of District Clerk Irene Rodriguez finally released the Eagle Pass Business Journal a copy of the Criminal Indictment against Maverick County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Cesar Perez and his two former…

By: Jose G. Landa Eagle Pass Business Journal© Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber announced the appointment of Maverick County Sheriff Department Lieutenant Cesar de la Garza as Interim Jail Administrator of the Maverick County Tom Bowles Dentention Center on Monday, January 14, 2013, following the sudden resignation of previous Jail…