By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The Maverick County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 (MCWCID No. 1) main water canal sustained a break near Las Moras Creek in Quemado, Texas believed to have been caused by soil erosion on Monday, July 31, 2017, at…

DEL RIO, Texas – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Highway 57 immigration checkpoint arrested one Mexican man for narcotics smuggling on Friday.  “Drug trafficking organizations go to great lengths in the attempt to smuggle deadly narcotics into the United States,” said Acting Chief Patrol Agent of Del Rio Sector Matthew J. Hudak….

by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Aug. 1, 2017 The Texas House has approved taking money from a state emergency savings fund to pay to temporarily bolster the state-run health insurance program for retired teachers. The lower chamber voted 130-10 Tuesday to pass House Bill 20 authored by Rep. Trent…

by Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Aug. 1, 2017 Janeera Nickol Gonzalez was shot on a Wednesday in May, in the late morning. She died in a study room in Performance Hall, a multistory brick structure on the campus of North Lake College, outside Dallas. Gonzalez was 20 years old; she…

By: Andrea Sears, Public News Service – NY NEW YORK – Ending federal health-insurance subsidies would make prices go up almost immediately, according to healthcare advocates. Following the failure of Senate efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump reiterated his threat to sabotage the law by ending required…

by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune July 31, 2017 A federal judge on Monday declined ExxonMobil’s request to reconsider a $20 million fine he ordered the energy giant to pay earlier this year for spewing millions of pounds of unauthorized air pollution from Houston-area industrial facilities. In April, U.S. District…

(Press Release) In Waco last week, a federal judge sentenced Nancy Chan, a 39-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom and City of Austin employee, for perpetrating a marriage fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Javier Enriquez, Customs and Border Protection Office…

By: Joshua Breisblatt, Immigration Impact The House of Representatives passed a spending bill last week which included $1.6 billion for expansion of a southern border wall. The bill, which passed largely along party lines, will now move to the Senate where Democrats have emphatically said they oppose any border wall funding. In…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Small nonfarm businesses in 26 Texas counties are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by hail, excessive moisture, flooding, high winds and excessive rain in the following primary…

By: Eric Galatas, Public News Service – CO DENVER – The Trump administration’s tax proposals would not benefit all taxpayers or states equally, according to new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Matt Gardner, a senior fellow with the institute, says the richest 1 percent of taxpayers would…