Jaclyn Guzman

Staff Writer

The City of Eagle Pass along with US Customs and Border Protection held a ribbon cutting for their new recruitment center for CBP at International Bridge I, shortly after the event held for the grand opening of the lane expansion on Bridge II.

Jaclyn Guzmán

Staff Writer

Laredo native Rick Treviño has announced that he will be running to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. 

Jose G. Landa

Staff Writer

The Maverick County Hospital District has put forth two amendments to its statutes that could possibly be approved by the State Congress in the form of bills, thus changing parts of the MCHD bylaws. 

MCHD Administrator Terri Patlan Contreras recently traveled to Austin, Texas to meet with State Representative Poncho Nevarez and State Senator Carlos Uresti to discuss and set in motion the changing of the proposed statute amendments, which may only be done by the state that created the hospital district and its bylaws. 

The changes being sought by the MCHD are relating to an issue from 2015, when then MCHD Board Chair Person and President Joaquin Rodriguez had stepped down, and Vice Chair Juan Manuel Farias was given the nod to take over the responsibilities of chair person in Rodriguez’s absence. 

That fact was then challenged by then Trustee Ricardo E. Calderon on the fact that the district’s bylaws did not include the position of vice chair and president, thus a person could not ascend to the vacant position of chair person. 

A Texas Attorney General opinion was then requested and later affirmed that the position being disputed was in place since the onset of the district’s creation, so the ascension was valid.

Jaclyn Guzmán

Staff Writer

 Former Congressman and current candidate Pete Gallego attended a meet and greet packed with volunteers and supporters Wednesday morning at Danny’s Restaurant. 

Gallego ended his 4 day tour through the border region of Texas’ 23rd district in Eagle Pass, where he spoke about the changes he wished to see, and hoped to make, if elected.