By: T. Christian Miller, ProPublica In one of his first tweets as president, here’s how Donald Trump promised to spend taxpayer dollars: “We will follow two simple rules: BUY AMERICAN & HIRE AMERICAN!” he tweeted 55 minutes after taking the oath of office on Inauguration Day. In the first big…

By: Robert Faturechi, ProPublica On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune March 30, 2017 The judge in the securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ruled that the trial should be moved out of Collin County and delayed. The ruling to change venue is a major victory for prosecutors, who had argued…

by Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune March 29, 2017 Just one day after the Texas Senate passed its two-year budget, a key House committee sent their own spending proposal to the full House – but not before cutting $2.4 billion from the state’s largest health care program for the poor…

by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune March 30, 2017 Editor’s note: This story has been updated throughout. Texas senators spent hours on Thursday questioning how a “private school choice” bill would hold private schools accountable or help students with disabilities before voting to give it final passage, 18-13. They voted…

(San Antonio, TX) – Texas education officials illegally changed how property taxes are calculated in wealthy school districts, with the effect of substantially reducing the funds available for schools in poorer districts, a lawsuit filed Thursday charged. The change would cost the state’s poorer schools districts and their students approximately…

By: Senator Carlos Uresti In the past decade of the Texas Legislature, very few issues are as contentious as Vouchers. While they go by many names, such as tax credit scholarships and education savings accounts, to the average person a voucher is any route to use public dollars for a…

By: Laura Nelson, Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College Del Rio–In a ceremony held Friday, Mar. 24, Carlos Obrador, the Mexican consul in Del Rio, and Paul Sorrels, Vice President of Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College, celebrated eight RGC students who won scholarships. The students, all living…

In Del Rio this week, 46–year-old Bryan DeWain Splawn was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden. During Monday’s sentencing hearing, United States District Judge Alia Moses…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 A tragic head-on auto collision between a Church Bus and a pick-up truck on U.S. Highway 83 near Garner State Park in Concan, Uvalde County, Texas killed 13 members of the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels, Texas Choir returning…