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- Houston Chronicle: Settlement delay costs Houston Independent School District $82 million 8:39am Nov 20
- Public not invited to meetings about Brownsville master plan 10:22am Nov 19|1 Comment
- Federal stimulus Web site says $14.7 million in aid went to Texas Congressional districts that don’t exist 5:25am Nov 18
The Houston Independent School District has missed out on $82 million in technology upgrades while feds investigate whether employees accepted improper gifts from school vendors, the Houston Chronicle reports...
Brownsville city and civic officials have met privately about a growth plan for the city...
Texas is big. But it isn’t quite this big. The federal Web site tracking stimulus money shows aid dollars going to Texas’ 91st Congressional District, as well as five others that don’t exist and a curious district by the number 00. All ...
Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker has been relentless in her criticism of fellow candidate Gene Locke’s ties to quasi-governmental groups that helped fill the coffers of his law firm, Andrews Kurth. ...
The NewsRadio 740 KTRH AM morning team interviewed Texas Watchdog this morning about Houston Mayoral candidate Annise Parker about Parker making public her tax returns. Right after the Nov...
We wanted to express our gratitude to both the Texas Tribune and the Sunlight Foundation for giving us shout-outs yesterday for our publication of Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker’s income tax returns. Thank you!
Big thanks to KHOU 11 News for doing their own take on our state Senate travel story. Their report aired at 10 Friday night: Records show that while at a legislative conference in New York, Houston Sen. Rodney Ellis billed taxpayers for two nights at the Ritz Carlton, at a rate of $495 per night...
Annise Parker has made public the personal federal income tax returns for herself and her longtime domestic partner, responding to a request by Texas Watchdog earlier this month of both Parker and her opponent, attorney Gene Locke. Locke still has not made his tax forms public.
It’s been nine days now since Texas Watchdog called on the two contenders for mayor to release their income tax returns. Annise Parker has given up hers. So, where’s Gene Locke, and will we get to see his tax returns? Since we made our public request on Nov. 4,...
David Westphal at the Online Journalism Review reports that labor unions are funding two new news organizations, a move he reminds us is not unprecedented in the history of news: Just in the last several months, two labor unions in southern California have provided six-figure funding for very...
A gas tax hike could be coming for Texas drivers. The El Paso Times covered a meeting of a legislative transportation committee where the idea was discussed: Some legislators concerned about how to pay for new highways in Texas suggested looking at increasing the 20 cents a gallon state fuel tax...
You may have noticed a familiar name in the many bylines filing from Fort Hood, Texas this weekend. Texas Watchdog’s Steve Miller was tapped by the Washington Times to file stories about the killing rampage there for the Times’ national desk. St...
An autopsy center with offices in Beaumont, Conroe and Tyler has asked the state attorney general to determine whether it is subject to the Texas Public Information Act. The Longview News-Journal has the story: The Southeast Texas Forensic Center … submitted the question to the state Oct. ...
Sen. Judith Zaffirini spent about $58,800 on travel expenses and per diem payments over a year and a half period, outspending her state Senate colleagues. That’s based on a review of electronic travel records from Jan. ...
A proposal to build a shower in the women’s restroom near City Council offices in Houston’s City Hall Annex is dead, according to a councilman who opposed the project. At-Large City Councilmember Jolanda Jones, an attorney and an alum of the reality show Survivor, bikes to work each day. La...
