Calling all bloggers in Houston and the surrounding area: Do you ever blog about local politics? How about your kid’s school? Or new roads that you think need to be built to your town? Or a pollution problem in your neighborhood?
Texas Watchdog wants to help you.
We want to put on a meetup — an informal, [...]
No, I know what you’re thinking now that you’ve read the headline: A bunch of city councilmembers probably wanted to have a meeting at a Whataburger.
No, not quite.
The Whataburger chain’s corporate leaders are considering moving their headquarters from Corpus Christi to San Antonio. Some Corpus councilmen wanted to discuss that at a meeting, but it’s [...]
The Texas Faculty Association has sued the University of Texas’ regents, alleging that the board broke the state open meetings law when it voted to layoff scads of people at the university’s Medical Branch in Galveston, The Chronicle is reporting.
From the story by Harvey Rice:
“Important public decisions are being made in secret for reasons nobody [...]
The University of Texas regents had a closed-door session last week to talk about laying off 3,800 people at the UT-run Galveston medical center. The Texas Daily Newspaper Association has written them to complain that the meeting may have broken the state sunshine law, and the university’s faculty group says it may sue.
From the Houston [...]
The Texas Senate does too much of its business in secret, a leading Senate Republican said Friday at an Austin conference on open government issues.
Jeff Wentworth, the six-term Senator from San Antonio and chairman of the Senate Committee on Jurisprudence, said that he was “concerned about the way the Senate does its business,” saying too [...]
Here’s a novel concept: Government meeting agendas that actually tell you what’s going to be talked about. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says that’s how governments need to be writing their agendas, or they could be breaking the state’s sunshine law, according to this morning’s Dallas Morning News.
From the story by Jon Nielsen:
The opinion [...]
Written on October 20, 2008 | Posted in
Freedom of information,
Open meetings |
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