By Ian MacDougall, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Even as the Justice Department announced that federal prisons would release vulnerable, nonviolent inmates to home confinement to avoid the spread of COVID-19,…

Nadia Ramlagan, Public News Service – NC RALEIGH, N.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to leave current limits on air pollution unchanged, but critics say the particle pollution standards aren’t strict enough and put human health at risk. Mustafa Santiago Ali is a member of the Environmental…

By Texas Tribune Staff, The Texas Tribune May 26, 2020 “Coronavirus in Texas: GOP chairman says Republican National Convention welcome in Texas” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 While Maverick Countians enjoyed their three-day Memorial Day weekend holiday vacation, Coronavirus did not take a vacation in Maverick County as five new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases were reported by the Texas Department of State Health Services, according to…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 Although Texans enjoyed a hotly contested Texas Democratic Party and Republican Party Primary Elections on March 3, 2020, not all races registered a majority winner, requiring a Primary Runoff Election to be called for July 14, 2020 for certain key…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 An Eagle Pass, Texas 19 year-old male, identified as Brian Davila, was allegedly shot by another male individual, identified as Luis Alonso Perez, Jr., in the head by gunfire at 4:46 P.M. on Saturday, May 23, 2020, at the intersection…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Maverick County and Maverick County Sheriff’s Department appeal of a judgment issued on March 30, 2018 by United States District Judge Alia Moses for…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 Maverick County, Texas, including its county seat of Eagle Pass, continue seeing a steady increase of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases as one additional person tested positive on Friday, May 22, 2020, raising the total number of positive cases to…

By Mitchell Ferman, The Texas Tribune May 22, 2020 “Texas unemployment rate hits worst on record at 12.8%” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The state’s April…

By Shannon Najmabadi and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune May 22, 2020 “They lost their jobs and insurance in the pandemic. Now they’re slipping through Texas’ health care safety net.” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them…