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Breaking news from our series of reports examining the Houston Airport System and its shadowy spinoffs
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009, 11:57AM CST
By Trent Seibert
If you haven't seen it yet, check out our latest story on the Houston Airport System. We've been digging into the shadowy web of companies spun off by a city-approved nonprofit that is essentially an arm of the city's airport system. We're also trying to determine what our findings mean for Houston taxpayers.

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Also, be sure to check out our other stories on this topic, too. Here are all the stories published by Texas Watchdog 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)

Houston Airport System’s hidden international web of companies operates in secret (7/9)

Questions abound concerning Houston city airport execs easing through revolving door to spinoffs created with public resources (7/14)

Airport system's nonprofit refuses to turn over records to Houston Mayor Bill White (7/17)
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