By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council unanimously approved to award locally-owned Texas State Natural Gas, Inc. a 20 year extension of the City’s natural gas franchise at its regular meeting held on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Texas State…

By Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune March 13, 2018 Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from John Parker of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance. Bill Bilyeu started receiving the Powerpoint presentations in October. The administrator for Collin County, north of Dallas, found the slides interesting at first,…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The 2018 Eagle Pass International Friendship Festival will be held during March 16-25, 2018, announced Sandra Martinez, Executive Director of the Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce. The annual Eagle Pass International Friendship Festival will kick-off on Friday, March 16th, at…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber reported that two Maverick County men, Genaro Ramos and Jose Humberto Hernandez, age 20, were arrested for aggravated assault charges regarding the March 8, 2018 incident at Balcones Heights Subdivision that resulted in an armed…

By Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune March 10, 2018 State Rep. Roland Gutierrez is running for Texas Senate District 19, a Democratic-leaning San Antonio district that overlaps with his own. The only problem: That seat is still held by state Sen. Carlos Uresti, who has resisted calls to resign from…

Written by Tory Johnson, Immigration Impact The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pursuing a massive increase in resources for immigrant detention centers, a fundamentally flawed network of largely privatized and remote facilities used to hold immigrants. Yet this already unwieldy system has a concerning history of abuses and substandard…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune March 9, 2018 Two immigrants in a South Texas detention center suffered bat bites earlier this week, and at least one is undergoing treatment “just in case the bat was rabid,” the immigrant’s attorney told the Texas Tribune. One bite occurred at around 1…

Written by Diana Orces, Immigration Impact With approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States, curbing unauthorized immigration has been at the forefront of the Trump administration’s enforcement priorities. Yet new data shows that a heightened focus on this population may be misguided, as the number of…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune March 12, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Now that the first round of this election cycle is out of the way, we can talk about November. The election moves now — runoffs…

Written by Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact Immigrants are often used as convenient scapegoats for those feeling the economic pinch of joblessness. However, for at least the last 15 years, immigrants have not been a source of significant job competition for the native-born in the United States. A recent paper on…