(PRESS RELEASE) With the Easter festivities right around the corner, CBP is reminding the traveling public that cascarones (confetti-filled eggshells) are restricted to quantities of 12 per passenger and the shells may be decorated, etched, or painted but they must be clean, dry, and free of any egg residue.  They…

(Press Release) – Employment of healthcare occupations is projected to grow 18 percent from 2016 to 2026, adding about 2.4 million new jobs, according to the US Department of Labor. To meet the high demand for healthcare jobs, Southwest Texas Junior College will launch the new Patient Care Technician (PCT)…

By Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune March 24, 2018 Tens of thousands of Texans poured out onto streets and gathered in parks Saturday to rally for stricter gun laws about a month after a mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school claimed 17 lives. In more than 800 planned…

By: Eric Galatas, Public News Service – CO DENVER – Colorado’s Senate, following the lead of the Trump administration, is considering adding work requirements for people with Medicaid coverage. Critics warn the move could end up taking health insurance away from more than six million Americans – including hundreds of…

By Sydney Greene, The Texas Tribune March 26, 2018 Texas schools issued more than 64,000 in-school suspensions to students in the second grade or younger during the 2015-16 school year, and a disproportionate number of those students were black, male, in foster care or in special education, according to a…

By Rishika Dugyala, The Texas Tribune March 27, 2018 Texas pre-kindergarten programs are just scraping by after losing millions of dollars last year — and without sustainable funding, they could see greater problems down the line, school officials say. During the 2017 legislative session, lawmakers decided not to fund a…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune March 27, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Counting is one thing. Culling is something else entirely. As the federal government prepares for its once-every-decade count of the U.S. population, it has decided…

(Press Release) Petróleos Mexicanos and Lewis Energy México signed the first Integrated Exploration and Extraction Contract (Acronym in Spanish: CSIEE) for the Olmos field, which is located in the state of Coahuila. The purpose is to assess and develop the Eagle Ford field in Mexico. By formalizing this contract, an…

(Press Release) Austin, Texas – Late yesterday, the Trump Administration through the Commerce Department, announced its decision to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 U.S. Census. The inclusion of the citizenship question is expected to adversely impact states with high immigrant populations, such as Texas. It is expected…

(Press Release) WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a coalition of 45 of the nation’s preeminent Latino advocacy organizations, condemns the decision of the Trump administration to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 Census. The addition of this question in the current political climate will cause…