Houston Bloggers: Texas Watchdog wants to meetup with you — on Jan. 17

By Jennifer Peebles | Monday, January 5th, 2009
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Calling all bloggers in Houston and the surrounding area: Do you ever blog about local politics? How about your kid’s school? Or new roads that you think need to be built to your town? Or a pollution problem in your neighborhood?

Texas Watchdog wants to help you.

We want to put on a meetup — an informal, casual get-together — in mid-January.

Come on out and hang with our staff. We want to know how we can help local bloggers and citizen journalists in reporting and using freedom of information laws in the Houston area — and find out how we can better investigate and keep an eye on local and state government agencies in the Houston area.

We’re aiming for 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17. As for location — anyone have any suggestions? Leave us a note in the comments or shoot me an e-mail at jennifer@texaswatchdog.org. (UPDATE, Jan. 11: We’ve decided on a venue, everyone. It’s the Stag’s Head pub, 2128 Portsmouth St, Houston, near Richmond Avenue and South Shepard Drive.)

Bring your story tips, your questions, your complaints — and let’s have a refreshing beverage and relax some, too!

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One Response to “Houston Bloggers: Texas Watchdog wants to meetup with you — on Jan. 17”

  1. kevin whited on January 10th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
    I just posted about this, and my understanding from emailing is that you've settled on Stag's Head Pub, but maybe it's worth an update to the post so anyone stumbling upon it will know?

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