By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The Eagle Pass Independent School District E-Mail System was hacked by an anonymous hacker on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 and a fake email was forwarded to over 3,000 District employees presumably from Deputy Superintendent Samuel Mijares that released the 2017-2018…

Written by Joshua Breisblatt, Immigration Impact After President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, he instructed Congress to pass legislation to protect Dreamers. However, Congress had to wait for direction from the White House on what type of legislation the president would sign into law. Finally,…

(Press Release) Marking the beginning of the nation’s tax season, the Internal Revenue Service said today that it successfully started accepting and processing 2017 federal individual income tax returns. More than 155 million returns are expected to be filed this year. People have until Tuesday, April 17, 2018, to file…

by Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune Jan. 29, 2018 Texas’ second attempt to require health providers to bury or cremate fetal remains has been temporarily thwarted by a federal judge and another court battle is imminent. In his Monday afternoon ruling, U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra said the Texas…

by Jay Root and Ryan Murphy, The Texas Tribune Jan. 29, 2018 The Texas Association of Business, the state’s de facto chamber of commerce, hasn’t been reluctant to talk about its opposition to last year’s “bathroom bill” that sought to define which bathrooms transgender people could use, its criticism of…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Jan. 28, 2018 U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, easily outraised U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz over the last three months in his campaign to unseat the Texas Republican, raking in over $2.4 million to Cruz’s $1.9 million. Yet Cruz maintains a big cash-on-hand advantage,…

By: Dan Heyman, Public News Service – WV CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers who want to add work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program argue that many of the people now getting SNAP are shirking employment, but evidence suggests that’s not true. Angie Williams is a single mother…

SEATTLE – Last year, billionaires saw their wealth increase enough to end extreme poverty around the world seven times over, according to a report from the global charity organization Oxfam. The report, “Reward Work, Not Wealth,” says 82 percent of the wealth created in 2017 went to the top 1…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Jan. 29, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. The two big political parties are often presented as equals, each in position at any given time to prevail in an election. But the Republican…

by Rishika Dugyala, The Texas Tribune Jan. 29, 2018 Texas will host the first statewide primaries of 2018 on March 6 and, with the Feb. 5 registration deadline fast approaching, Texans don’t have much time left to become eligible to vote. For both Democrats and Republicans, the race for U.S….