Eagle Pass To Host 4th of July Independence Day Celebration Featuring Star-Studded Musical Concert
June 27th, 2017By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas is hosting a 4th of July Independence Day Celebration on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, featuring a traditional red, white, and blue Independence Day Parade at 11 A.M. in downtown Eagle Pass, Water Games at…
CBO Report: 22 Million Would Lose Insurance By 2026 Under The Better Care Reconciliation Act
June 26th, 2017CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law. An Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute…
Boycotts Over ‘Religious Freedom’ Bills Could Cost Texas Billions
June 26th, 2017By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas — The predicted economic backlash against Texas has begun in protest of the state’s new laws that allow discrimination in the name of religious freedom. Last week, California banned official travel to Texas by state employees in response to a…
Texas Hospitals Fear Losing $6.2B Medicaid Deal
June 26th, 2017By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Texas rejected billions in federal aid to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, calling the program “broken.” But now it’s asking the Trump administration to renew a deal that’s brought the state an additional $6.2 billion a year under Medicaid to help care…
In The End, Even The Middle Class Would Feel GOP Squeeze On Nursing Home Care
June 26th, 2017By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She raised four children and buried two husbands. But years in an assisted living facility drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care at Dogwood Village,…
Eagle Pass Police Department Weekend Report
June 26th, 2017Friday, June 23, 2017 10:09 AM: Eagle Pass Police Officers responded to a motel business on South Texas Drive in reference to a suspicious person. Responding officers encountered an adult female outside the business near a garbage container who was partially clothed. The female appeared to be under the influence…
Federal Jury Convicts Two Former Crystal City Officials on Bribery and Wire Fraud Charges
June 26th, 2017(Press Release) In Del Rio, Texas, on Monday, June 22, 2017, a federal jury convicted two former Crystal City, TX, officials for their roles in a bribery and kickback scheme which decimated city coffers announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San…
U.S. Supreme Court tosses cross-border shooting case back to lower court
June 26th, 2017by Julián Aguilar and Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune June 26, 2017 The nation’s highest court on Monday sent a case involving the cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teenager back to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for reconsideration. That leaves the question of whether the teen’s family can sue the U.S. Border Patrol agent who…
Deep Cuts To Medicaid Put Rural Hospitals In The Crosshairs
June 23rd, 2017By: Bram Sable-Smith, Side Effects Public Media For the hundreds of rural U.S. hospitals struggling to stay in business, health policy decisions made in Washington, D.C., this summer could make survival a lot tougher. Since 2010, at least 79 rural hospitals have closed across the country, and nearly 700 more are…
‘Coverage Gap’ For Poor May End, But Many Will Still Have Trouble Affording Plans
June 23rd, 2017By: Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Having long decried the failings of the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans are purporting to fix one of its loopholes with their newly unveiled health plan. The so-called coverage gap left more than 2.5 million people living below the poverty line of $11,880 for an…
