(San Antonio, TX – August 23, 2017) A delegation representing the City of Eagle Pass and its Business & Economic Development (BEDC), attended the Asociacion de Empresarios Mexicanos or AEM Energy Industry Luncheon in San Antonio, TX, on Monday, August 21, 2017. The city’s delegation included Eagle Pass BEDC Chairman…

By: Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica Angee Dixson joined Twitter on Aug. 8 and immediately began posting furiously — about 90 times a day. A self-described American Christian conservative, Dixson defended President Donald Trump’s response to the unrest in Charlottesville, criticized the removal of Confederate monuments and posted pictures purporting to show…

by Maria Esquinca and Andrea Jaramillo, News21, The Texas Tribune Aug. 22, 2017 Twenty-three years ago, Olivia Figueroa left her neighborhood in Chihuahua, Mexico, where she didn’t have basic services, and immigrated to the U.S. She paid $40 to cross the Rio Grande, only to arrive to another community that…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Aug. 22, 2017 Jerry Wald retired early after 21 years of state service and left behind the stresses of his supervisor role at the Department of Aging and Disability Services. But a decade after he stopped punching the clock, the 67-year-old has a different sort of…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 United States District Court Judge Alia Moses for the Western District of Texas, Del Rio Division, swore-in the new 2017 Del Rio Association of Federal Attorneys’ Officers on Tuesday, August 8, 2017, during the regular monthly meeting of the federal…

(Press Release) In Del Rio, Texas, on August 21, 2017, United States District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 68-year-old former Eagle Pass City Manager Hector Chavez, Sr., to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for lying to FBI agents during their investigation into a “pay-to-play”…

by Neena Satija and Matthew Watkins, The Texas Tribune Aug. 21, 2017 WINKLER COUNTY — On a square of dirt surrounded by sun-scorched grassland, hundreds of miles from Austin, a huge iron pumpjack creaks up and down. It runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, generating as much as…

(Corpus Christi, TX – August 21, 2017) The City of Eagle Pass, through its Business & Economic Development (BEDC), was represented at the Eagle Ford Consortium Regional Meeting in Corpus Christi on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. The city’s government relations & business economic development consulting firm, EMC Strategy Group, LLC,…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Former City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Manager Hector Chavez, Sr. was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for making a false statement to an FBI Agent with credit for time served and three years of community supervision by…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Aug. 18, 2017 If Gov. Greg Abbott calls a second special legislative session this summer, it won’t likely be for redistricting. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed Friday that Abbott has no plans to ask lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map — found by a…