By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas – Death-penalty opponents say a request by Texas officials to limit the amount of time people on death row have to appeal their sentences could result in some who are innocent being executed. Texas has asked the Justice Department to…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune April 13, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. The best way to improve public education in Texas? Cut the number of standardized tests students have to take, according to a February 2017 University…

By Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune April 11, 2018 * This story has been updated throughout. Texas advocates for Mexican-American studies classes won a bitter victory Wednesday, in gaining approval to move forward with the class they wanted, but losing the course title. The board had been debating more than…

By Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune April 10, 2018 Texas students taking a critical standardized test on Tuesday were confronted with technical problems — again. Teachers told The Dallas Morning News that some students were temporarily kicked out of the testing software while taking the STAAR exam. More than 100,000…

By Aliyya Swaby and Ryan Murphy, The Texas Tribune April 11, 2018 Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national “report card” out this week….

By Brandon Formby, The Texas Tribune April 10, 2018 DALLAS — As North Texas and its affluent suburbs help fuel the state’s continued population growth, Dallas County is seeing a growing divide in the economic opportunities available to its residents, and it’s becoming more difficult for the poorest people —…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Eagle Pass Youth Center Director Alfonso Mallen announced that the 8th Annual Battle of the Badges Boxing Event will be held on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 7 P.M. at the City of Eagle Pass, Texas International Center for Trade,…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Eagle Passan Andrea Casares, a licensed attorney in the State of Texas, was officially sworn-in as an Assistant District Attorney in the 63rd and 83rd Judicial District Courts serving Val Verde, Terrell, and Kinney Counties on Monday, April 9, 2018…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council approved the second reading of an Ordinance imposing a water impact fee known as water capital recovery fee of $828 per living equivalent unit (per lot) and the third and final reading…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Early Voting Period for the City of Eagle Pass, Texas Special Election on six proposed City Charter Amendments commences on April 23, 2018 at 8 A.M.-5 P.M. and continues until Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at the City’s Multi-Purpose Center,…