By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 5 P.M. at City Council Chambers, located at 100 South Monroe Street, Eagle Pass, Texas 78852, tackling several important issues including…

By Bobby Blanchard, The Texas Tribune March 20, 2018 A fifth package has reportedly exploded in Texas, this one at a FedEx facility in Schertz, which is outside of San Antonio. According to CBS News, federal officials say it is “more than possible” that the explosion is linked to the…

By Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune March 19, 2018 For the fourth time this month, a bomb exploded in an Austin residential neighborhood Sunday night, seriously injuring two people and alarming law enforcement that a sophisticated “serial bomber” might be at work in Austin’s capital city. The most recent explosion…

Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service – WA WENATCHEE, Wash. — Students and other Washingtonians are gearing up to march for their lives this Saturday to protest gun violence. In the Evergreen State, at least 15 “March for Our Lives” protests are planned in solidarity with the largest march in Washington,…

By Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune March 19, 2018 For the fourth time this month, a bomb exploded in an Austin residential neighborhood Sunday night, seriously injuring two people and alarming law enforcement that a sophisticated “serial bomber” might be at work in Austin’s capital city. The most recent explosion…

By Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune March 19, 2018 Attending college is set to become slightly more expensive for undergraduates at all eight of the University of Texas System’s academic institutions. With few questions, the system’s Board of Regents voted unanimously Monday to up the cost of tuition and fees…

By Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post March 16, 2018 AUSTIN — Interstate 35 runs north through the heart of Austin, an informal but symbolically potent line that divides the thriving city. The wide swath of concrete, six lanes thick at many points, demarcates the separation between affluent and predominantly white…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The United States-Mexico border sister cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico celebrated the 56th Anniversary of The Abrazo De La Amistad Ceremony on Friday, March 16, 2018, at 5:30 P.M. at the US-Mexico border International…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Maverick County Sheriff Department reported receiving several telephone calls from residents in the Rosita Valley area of Southern Maverick County near the intersection of El Indio Highway (FM 1021) and Rosita Valley Road regarding the strong odor and smell…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reported that Jorge Gabriel Sotelo, age 46, was shot in the abdomen by unknown person on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at approximately 9 P.M. while visiting his brother on Vienna Street in the Loma Bonita…