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Friday, 01/27/2012 - 11:22AM | By Steve Miller
The Brownsville school district is pushing back on a request for information related to a Jan. 4 shooting at one of its middle...
Friday, 01/27/2012 - 10:38AM | By Mark Lisheron
With judges in San Antonio and Washington, D.C. poring like Columbus over maps of the new political world in Texas, we hear again a cry in the distance...
Thursday, 01/26/2012 - 03:24PM | By Mark Lisheron
The board of directors for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association this morning hired an actuarial firm to help the board decide on a rate increase...
Thursday, 01/26/2012 - 11:04AM | By Mark Lisheron
Texans are leading a movement to recast the perception of states’ rights as Antebellum code for racial oppression. Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Ted...
Wednesday, 01/25/2012 - 11:14AM | By Mark Lisheron
The Texas Attorney General’s office is investigating an attempt to build the state’s social safety net out of $185 million in dental brace...
Tuesday, 01/24/2012 - 01:24PM | By Mark Lisheron
At $2.6 million, it might not be considered much of a bargain, but the Texas Department of Public Safety actually performed two services while on Gov....
Tuesday, 01/24/2012 - 10:26AM | By Mark Lisheron
Unless the legal combatants can agree on a map of districts by Feb. 6, Texas voters should be prepared to come to the polls twice during the...
Monday, 01/23/2012 - 10:04AM | By Mark Lisheron
Security on the Texas border has created yet another insidious problem: an acute shortage of public accountants to keep track of the largesse from all...
Monday, 01/23/2012 - 09:17AM | By Steve Miller
A letter to a federal judge from Harris County’s legal counsel supporting ousted Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole was...
Friday, 01/20/2012 - 11:17AM | By Trent Seibert
Texas Watchdog reporter Steve Miller has been nominated for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award. Miller is being recognized for his account of...
Friday, 01/20/2012 - 10:16AM | By Mark Lisheron
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning rejected voting district maps drawn for Texas by a federal judicial panel in San Antonio and directed the panel to...
Friday, 01/20/2012 - 09:14AM | By Mark Lisheron
Medicare or Medicaid fraud may be at the center of a raid by the FBI, federal health agents and Texas Attorney General’s investigators on one of...
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