Wall Street Shaped Bill Easing Oversight, and Kept Contributions Coming Lobbyists from the banking industry had significant input into the wording of a bill exempting certain kinds of trades from regulation...

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Open Secrets

Remember the Long Weekend That’s all for this week; Swamplot will be back, as usual, after the long Memorial Day weekend. But that doesn’t mean our...

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Swamplot

Lining Up the Water View From a Lake Conroe Contemporary The ‘bay’ at this multilevel 1990 property in Walden on Lake Conroe is a 2-story space with a modern, multi-pane frame of the...

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Swamplot

Gov. Rick Perry visits in the Texas House AUSTIN -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry stopped by the Texas House of Representatives Friday, wanting to greet a few people being honored by...

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Star-Telegram's PoliTex

Comment of the Day: Cheaper, Close-In “I would just add to what Cody said. You can avoid traffic AND get a big house and lawn here in Houston. You just need to set aside...

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Swamplot

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Stairmaster 2110 Stonewalk Dr....

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Swamplot

A quick observation on Texas' LockStep Political Media I realize the ol' blog hasn't had any updates for a couple of weeks, but life (esp. the paying and family parts) gets in the way of typing...

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Cory Crow

The Story of the Little Bungalow at 4414 Gibson St. This 1940 bungalow in Magnolia Grove had been all set to be torn down, showing up in the Daily Demolition Report on Wednesday. But the...

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Swamplot

Taxpayer parasite CSCOPE still alive Why is CSCOPE being given the time and room to plot it’s next move? CSCOPE has broken trust with Texas parents and taxpayers in every...

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AgendaWise

Prosecutors dissing the Michael Morton Act, and defending it At the Texas District and County Attorney Association's user forum, see 24th judicial district ADA Terry Breen's embittered critique...

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