It was a serious charge, even though it was never substantiated: AshBritt, a debris removal company with a checkered past, claimed that Joe Jaworski, the former mayor pro tem of Galveston, used Hurricane Ike to help a client at his law practice.
In a letter sent to Jaworski and obtained by Texas Watchdog, the corporate counsel [...]
When you go to Rep. Kino Flores’ campaign Web site, you hear a sound file of Flores talking, saying “It is better to give than to receive.” Does that explain the fishing cabin on South Padre?
We’re awfully grateful for the shout out from the editorial board at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram — and they’re right: lawmakers’ personal financial disclosure forms should be available in a searchable database.
The newspaper had pointed out a glaring conflict of interest in the appointment of the committee chairman — and instead of faulting the conflict of interest, the mayor is blaming the newspaper for pointing it out.
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The Houston Chronicle has updated their investigation into royalties received by educators at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. From their story today:
An experiment to better prepare low-income youngsters for school has cost taxpayers more than three times the typical pre-K curriculum and raised questions about payments to educators who commercialized the program.
Staff members [...]
It’s a grave allegation: AshBritt, a debris removal company, claims that Democratic state Senate candidate Joe Jaworski used Hurricane Ike to help a client at his law practice.
A former Galveston mayor pro tem, Jaworski is locked in a tight race against long-time incumbent Mike Jackson for the District 11 seat covering the Galveston area.
In a [...]
Earlier this month, state Rep. Hubert Vo found himself in a delicate spot when he wrote a self-serving letter on official state stationery to Houston police. In his correspondence, the Democratic incumbent complained about how the police were handling problems at the slummy apartment complexes he owns.
When asked about that letter, Vo’s spokesperson Kelly Fero [...]
State Rep. Ken Paxton doesn’t think it would help taxpayers to know whether he or other lawmakers are making money off state contracts. That’s what we glean from a story done by Jay Root of the Associated Press’ Austin bureau (spotted via The Chronicle), who says Paxton, a McKinney Republican, and another GOP lawmaker, Byron [...]
So this is choice: Houston state Sen. John Whitmire has asked state leaders to let him to chair a special legislative review of the Hurricane Ike recovery efforts. And he tells the Chronicle that he wants to look at whether CenterPoint Energy should be mandated to replace wooden electrical poles with concrete or metal ones. [...]
