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)
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
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