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Thursday, 05/17/2012 - 04:52PM | By Mark Lisheron
Taxpayers are footing more than $83 million a year in rent for federal agencies in Texas that use less than half of the space they pay for. This...
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Thursday, 05/17/2012 - 02:35PM | By Steve Miller
Campaign finance reports can be a treasure of information about a candidate at any level of office. Almost across the board, if you run for an elected...
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Thursday, 05/17/2012 - 10:03AM | By Mark Lisheron
Given the track record (pun most certainly intended) of the investors who brought Formula One to Austin, the public is going to have to file an open...
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Wednesday, 05/16/2012 - 04:57PM | By Mike Cronin
Issa Dadoush presented a letter to his boss on Monday that excoriated the ways Houston public schools officials conducted their business operations,...
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Wednesday, 05/16/2012 - 12:22PM | By Mark Lisheron
It looks like Toto got a muzzle full of voting booth curtain in Galveston. Cheryl Johnson, the Galveston County Tax Assessor-Collector, is...
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Wednesday, 05/16/2012 - 11:01AM | By Mark Lisheron
Last June, when FBI agents raided the home and office of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, the Washington Post exclaimed,...
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Wednesday, 05/16/2012 - 10:16AM | By Steve Miller
Sixty-five Fort Worth city employees earned at least $20,000 in overtime last year, according to a report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The top 10...
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Tuesday, 05/15/2012 - 09:51AM | By Steve Miller
Texas school districts may be laying off teachers and screaming at the state for cutting their cash, but at least one district has no problem coughing...
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Monday, 05/14/2012 - 12:08PM | By Mark Lisheron
District Judge Scott Jenkins did what the Texas Legislature didn’t do in the last session: allow Gov. Rick Perry to keep the records of travel...
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Friday, 05/11/2012 - 11:23AM | By Steve Miller
While state lawmakers pushed a voter ID bill last session, at least six bills addressing mail-in voter fraud never made it out of committee. So...
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Thursday, 05/10/2012 - 02:16PM | By Mark Lisheron
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes or less for $10 billion and it won’t cost taxpayers a...
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Thursday, 05/10/2012 - 12:15PM | By Steve Miller
Ann Sutherland: If it’s not one veil of secrecy it’s another. The veteran member of the Fort Worth school board walked into a...
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