By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles clawed the visiting Laredo Cigarroa High School Toros 35-7 in a non-district football game on Friday, September 8, 2017, at the Eagle Pass Independent School District Cozel Foster-Veterans Memorial Stadium in Eagle…

(Press Release) The 16-day early teal hunting season opens statewide Saturday with guarded optimism tempered by the reality that many waterfowlers along the Texas coast are focusing on storm recovery. Hunting along the Texas coast typically accounts for about half the teal bagged during the early September season and, unfortunately,…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Sept. 7, 2017 Within hours of the Trump administration’s announcement that it was ending a program that has shielded Areli Zarate and other young undocumented immigrants from deportation, the 26-year-old public school teacher was rallying a crowd gathered outside the Texas attorney general’s office, vowing to “teach until the last day…

by Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Sept. 7, 2017 Seven first responders filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company whose Crosby, Texas, plant broke out in a series of chemical fires last week as a result of taking on six feet of Hurricane Harvey floodwaters. And a second lawsuit is…

by Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune Sept. 7, 2017 Three Texas churches damaged in Hurricane Harvey are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying they should be eligible for disaster relief money even though they are religious institutions typically denied such funds. The Harvest Family Church,…

(Press Release) IBC Bank invites the community to participate in Operation Do More, a Hurricane Harvey supply drive. Bank officers will be available at the Eagle Pass main branch location on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. . Supplies may also be dropped off at the IBC Bank locations…

Por: Humberto Caspa, Ph.D. Como en el pasaje bíblico de Poncio Pilatos, Donald Trump se lavó descaradamente las manos. En un tweet cargado de hipocresía dijo: “Congreso, ponte listo para hacer tu trabajo, DACA”. En otras palabras, Trump se está limpiando de culpa por anular la orden ejecutiva que mantuvo…

By: Guillermo Cantor, Immigration Impact On January 13, 1898, the novelist Émile Zola penned a now famous open letter in the French newspaper L’Aurore, accusing the French government of anti-Semitism for falsely convicting military officer Alfred Dreyfus of espionage. The impassioned essay on what became known as the Dreyfus Affair galvanized many…

(Press Release) – Weather permitting Thursday and Friday, September 7-8, 2017 from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. nightly, motorists in Eagle Pass can expect full closure of FM 1021 between Bliss St. and Main Streets. This closure will facilitate pavement milling and inlay rehab road work. Project length is approximately four…

(Press Release) EAGLE PASS – The Texas Water Resources Institute is hosting an educational field day focusing on water conservation in irrigated agriculture for producers Sept. 13 in Eagle Pass. The event is free and will be from 8 a.m.–12:30 p.m. at the Maverick County Junior Livestock Show Meeting Room,…