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TxDOT's big accident
Friday, Aug 29, 2008, 08:03AM CST
By Trent Seibert


Lots of folks are buzzing about the audit released yesterday about the $1.1 billion error by the Texas Department of Transportation. Including us here and here. The error means some road projects are getting scaled back. Others are being postponed.

Essentially, the TxDOT bookkeepers counted bond proceeds at TxDOT twice. How did it happen? The Houston Chronicle's Janet Elliott explains it in a story in today's editons: It happened because of poor communication, according to the report. Here's the version from the Austin American-Statesman.

It's likely this latest development won't do much to help the cause of legislators' efforts to re-tool how highways and roads are paid for by the state.

Bloggers and citizen-journalists have been making their voices heard recently about the Republican-led proposal.

Here's McBlogger's take on the issue.

Here's the Muckraker, highlighting the Texas Monthly's take.

And the view from Off the Kuff.
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Tuesday, 07/06/2010 - 11:57PM

They need to restructure the top dogs at the district level and the Austin level instead the working engineers and techs are suffering because as you know shit flows down hill.....we get the cuts,no raises, no promotions,no new hiers ....everyone seem to feel we ,the worker have done something wrong and we not the big dogs are suffering......Engineers are fed up and are leaving...period..lets see if maybe they can hier mass exeduse cheap...like allways..

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