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The Houston Airport CEO, the mayor and a mystery: a Texas Watchdog story round-up
Sun Jun 28 10:32:29 2009 CST
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By Trent Seibert
There's more to come from Texas Watchdog as we continue to dig into why many issues concerning the departure of the Houston Airport CEO is being kept such a closely guarded secret by both airport and city officials.

In the meantime, though, we wanted to put all the enterprise reports and blog posts we've done in connection with the Houston Airport System chief's abrupt retirement -- and the city's involvement -- in one location.

Here it is, the stories so far from our first to the most recent:

Houston Airport System: Releasing salary list would make airports vulnerable to terrorists (6/18)

Houston Press Hair Balls blog and Chronicle's Rick Casey riff on Texas Watchdog's records tussle with Airport Authority (6/19)

Houston Mayor Bill White informed months ago of foreign airport projects; see ousted airport CEO's five-figure expense reports (6/25)

Does Houston city government have a playbook to keep reporters at bay? (6/25)

Were taxpayers tapped too much for Tripoli trip tab? (6/25)

Libyan trip part of city review; taxpayers shouldn't pay airport nonprofit's travel bills (6/26)

Former airports chief: No nonprofit work done on city-funded $13K Libya trip (6/26)

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