Roz Brown, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas — If you’re having trouble getting your head around what part of the coronavirus pandemic we’re in, a Texas public-health expert says it can be broken into five phases. Gerald Parker directs the Bush School’s biosecurity and pandemic public policy program…

By Stacy Fernández, The Texas Tribune April 13, 2020 “230,000 Texas families filed for SNAP food assistance in March, twice as many as same month last year” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public…

By Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune April 13, 2020 “Texas redistricting could be affected by coronavirus-related delays of census” 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. A delay…

By Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune April 13, 2020 “Federal appeals court allows medication abortions in Texas during coronavirus pandemic” 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…

By Texas Tribune Staff, The Texas Tribune April 14, 2020 “Coronavirus in Texas: Paxton issues opinion on temporary tax exemption; state officials discussing oil production cuts” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,…

(Press Release) As the nation continues to shelter in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is urging Texans to shop online or practice strict social distancing measures for in-store purchases during the sales tax holiday for emergency preparation supplies. The primary intent of the law that…

Tuesday March 31, 2020: Eagle Pass Police Investigators served felony warrants on seventeen (17) year old Abraham Lopez and seventeen (17) year old Roman Rodriguez. Lopez and Rodriguez are suspects in a burglary of a convenience store located within the 2400 block of Main Street which were seen on social…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 The City of Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico Mayor Alfredo Paredes Lopez announced on Monday, April 13, 2020 at press conference in the northern Coahuila industrial city known as the Steel Capital of Mexico that there are 850 suspected confirmed positive…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., © 2020 Eagle Pass nurse Elishoel Reyes, age 30, of Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center has volunteered to go to work in New York, New York during the COVID-19 pandemic on a humanitarian medical mission. Reyes applied with a medical staffing company…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo announced at a press conference on Monday, April 13, 2020 that the South Texas Food Bank of Laredo, Texas will be holding two days of free food distribution for senior citizens who are 55…