(Press Release) The City of Eagle Pass BEDC launched the Hotel Managers Advisory Committee on February 7, 2018, at the Holiday Inn Express.  Jaime Rodriguez, BEDC Amenities Tourism & Visitors Chairman, welcomed managers and owners from six area hotels to join the BEDC.  The group will help support future…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 With the Texas Democratic and Republican Parties’ Primary Elections commencing on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 with the Early Voting Period continuing until March 2nd and Election Day being on March 6th, 293rd and 365th Judicial District Attorney Roberto Serna…

(Press Release) The Department of Justice announced that a grand jury in the District of Columbia today returned an indictment presented by the Special Counsel’s Office. The indictment charges thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the United States political system,…

(Press Release) Eagle Pass, Texas – “The integrity of our next 293rd Judicial District Court Judge must be held to a Higher Standard,” said Maribel Flores, Democratic Party Candidate for the 293rd Judicial District Court in the March 6, 2018 Texas Primary Election.Dimmit, Maverick, and Zavala Counties’ voters have an…

(Press Release) The Eagle Pass Police Department is actively investigating a reported robbery which occurred on Tuesday February 13, 2018 at a business located at the intersection of El Indio Highway and Eidson Road. Investigators have been able to identify the alleged suspect as 28 year old Genaro Contreras Ramirez…

By: Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service – WA SEATTLE — February is Heart Health Month, and doctors are encouraging folks to get regular heart screenings. Recently, guidelines for blood pressure targets have been revised, eliminating the category of prehypertension and suggesting that patients be treated when their blood pressure is…

By: Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service – WA BELLINGHAM. Wash. – New documents show a Washington state agency shared the personal information of an undocumented immigrant rights activist with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which used it to begin her deportation. Upon request, the Department of Licensing emailed the identification…

by Bobby Blanchard, The Texas Tribune Feb. 16, 2018 Russian nationals working to interfere with the 2016 presidential election visited Texas in 2014, spread derogatory information against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz during the Republican primary and posed as Americans while communicating with a person “affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization,”…

by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Feb. 15, 2018 A now-bankrupt company that received a major federal stimulus grant to build a “clean coal” power plant in West Texas spent millions of taxpayer dollars on alcohol, lobbying, spa services and other questionable — or clearly unauthorized — expenses. That’s according…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Feb. 15, 2018 The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to advance any of the four immigration proposals that lawmakers offered up this week, meaning legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants and bolster border security is again at a standstill. Sixty votes were needed to…