by Cassandra Pollock and Bobby Blanchard, The Texas Tribune Feb. 27, 2017 The Senate Committee on State Affairs is meeting at 9 this morning and will consider legislation to protect doctors from wrongful birth lawsuits. Follow Texas Tribune reporter Marissa Evans for updates. The bill would prohibit parents from suing…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Feb. 24, 2017 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. The state budget is tight. Problems in Texas’ child welfare system have risen to emergency proportions. Kids who have interacted with that system are disproportionately…

By: Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica Mexican officials have flatly rejected the Trump administration’s plan to deport to Mexico migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, regardless of nationality. On the eve of a high-level meeting between the two countries, Mexican officials said Mexico will never accept the return of Guatemalans,…

(Press Release) Wood Group PSN Inc., a Nevada corporation headquartered in Houston, Texas, was ordered to pay $9.5 million today in two separate cases involving their conduct in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting over several years that personnel…

(Press Release) The U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued full year 2016 U.S. international trade in goods and services data. The top five countries based on trade in goods in 2016 were China, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Germany. Trade in goods with China was $578.6 billion….

By: Ginger Thompson and Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica Leer en español. Buried deep in the Trump administration’s plans to round up undocumented immigrants is a provision certain to enrage Mexico — new authority for federal agents to deport anyone caught crossing the southern border to Mexico, regardless of where they are…

(Press Release) DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized 1,007.3 pounds of marijuana, valued over $ 805,840.00, as well as 6.4 pounds of methamphetamine, worth $201,389.00, in five separate incidents.  Three United States citizens and two Mexican nationals were arrested in conjunction…

By: Stacey Pogue, Center for Public Policy Priorities Even diligent patients who ask all of the right questions can get hit with surprise, out-of-network medical bills. This is especially likely to happen in an emergency, when sick or injured Texans must rush to the nearest emergency room and have no…

(Press Release) The Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Selection Committee has met to review and decide on who is to receive the prestigious Citizen of the Year (2016).  The committee was comprised of citizens-at-large, independent of the Chamber; these being two past Citizen of the Year…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 Former Eagle Pass High School Eagles and current Texas A & M University-Kingsville Javelina Track and Field student-athlete Christian Garcia won the 2017 Lone Star Conference Indoor Shot Put Championship on Sunday, February 19, 2017 in Alamosa, Colorado. Garcia…