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• Chron finally reports on HCGOP campaign-finance irregularities

  —blogHOUSTON

  THE CHRONICLE follows up on this week-old Texas Watchdog story about the Harris County GOP's apparent campaign-finance reporting problems with... their own story. We're surprised columnist Rick Casey never ran with this one, but perhaps sifting th...' [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 8:53am EST
  

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• Harris County Republicans question missing party money

  —South Texas Chisme

  [Ed] Hubbard raised alarm this summer when he discovered that several people or organizations identified as major sponsors of the party's annual fundraising dinner did not make it into the party's report.
  
  Last week, Texas Watchdog compared donors' reports to the party's reported receipts and documented what it considers' [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 4:07am EST
  

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• Dallas Morning News looks at Plano schools boundary changes controversy; Texas Watchdog highlighted

  —Texas Watchdog

  The Dallas Morning News has a well-written piece today about a controversy that has boiled over in Plano. Reporter Theodore Kim along with colleague Matthew Haag put the spotlight on how the trustees of the Plano Independent School District appeared to have hammered out a plan concerning school boundaries in a [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:41am EST
  by Trent Seibert

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• Texas Watchdog on HAS champagne and lobster party

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  TEXAS WATCHDOG posts about a lovely sounding champagne and lobster party being hosted by the Houston Airport System and a vendor for local media. Sadly, blogHOUSTON did not receive an invitation to the event (we could have gone for some lobster).... [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:17pm EST
  

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• Texas Watchdog story on donations not reported by Harris County GOP prompts call for independent audit

  —Texas Watchdog

  Readers had plenty to say concerning last week’s story about the money missing on the campaign finance report of the Harris County Republican Party. The story explained that some large donations to the party were reported on the donors’ forms covering the first half of the year but did not show [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  by Trent Seibert

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• Political donations? What political donations?

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  TEXAS WATCHDOG broke an interesting political story on Friday that sort of got lost in the shuffle on election eve: The Harris County Republican Party is apparently having difficulties accounting for/reporting some political donations. Jared Woodf... [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:32pm EST
  

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• A "non-transparent" holiday media slight?

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  KRIV-26'S ISIAH CAREY AND KPRC-2'S MARY BENTON both blog about attending Mayor White's big local holiday media soiree. We asked our friends at Texas Watchdog why they hadn't posted similarly exciting celebrity photos, but they informed us they wer...' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:28pm EST
  

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• Harris County Republican Party Accounting Debacle

  —Pondering Penguin

  As has been noticed by some recently, something odd is going on in bookkeeping at Harris County Republican Party (HCRP) headquarters. Today brings an article by Texas Watchdog and gives some specific examples of negligent practice deserving of investigation.
  
  HCRP treasurer, "Josh Flynn, referred Texas Watchdog to those" [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:06pm EST
  

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• The People’s Watchdog: Jeff Weems for Railroad Commissioner!

  —Lubbock Left

  Jeff Weems announced his candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner today in Austin, and he was in Lubbock tonight for his very first campaign house party. I got a chance to meet him, and I am impressed.

  With Jeff Weems we have a candidate who knows the oil and gas industry [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:36am EST
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• Gene Locke’s connections: An interactive chart

  —Texas Watchdog

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  The Houston Police Officers Union, Metro, and Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander - mayoral candidate Gene Locke has connections to all of them. From the groups and political figures who have endorsed him to some of his largest campaign donors, Texas Watchdog lets readers take a look at some of [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:50am EST
  by Jennifer Peebles

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• Annise Parker’s connections: An interactive presentation

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  From her endorsements by the Fraternal Order of Police and former Mayor Kathy Whitmire to her major donors including law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, Texas Watchdog lets readers take a look at some of mayoral candidate Annise Parker's major connections in a new interactive chart. [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:43am EST
  by Jennifer Peebles

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• Additional media coverage of the tax return issue in the Houston mayor’s race

  —Texas Watchdog

  A few weeks ago, Texas Watchdog called on Houston’s mayoral candidates to release their tax returns going back three years. Annise Parker released her tax returns soon after. And late last week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Gene Locke released his. We appreciate the candidates doing so. We asked for them [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:49pm EST
  by Trent Seibert

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• KHOU-TV features Texas Watchdog in story looking at Houston car ‘booting’

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  Thanks to Lee McGuire and KHOU 11 News for featuring Texas Watchdog in a story examining booting illegally parked cars for a news feature on Friday. If you haven’t see Texas Watchdog’s version of the booting issue — and the potential conflicts surrounding it — please give it a read. There’s more [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:03pm EST
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• Iran nuke program censured

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  One day after the director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog castigated Iran for blocking inquiries into its nuclear program, the organization’s governing body voted on Friday to censure the country [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:46am EST
  

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• Killer rationed health care in UK

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  Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon and Thurrock University NHS Hospitals FoundationTrust led to the deaths of up to 400 patients a year.

  Figures compiled by a health watchdog showed death rates at the Essex trust were a third [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:08pm EST
  

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• Houston mayoral hopeful Gene Locke finally lifts veil on personal finances

  —Texas Watchdog

  Locke's release of his tax forms comes three weeks after Texas Watchdog called on Locke and opponent Annise Parker to make their tax forms public so voters could judge whether the two candidates had conflicts of interest that might cloud their decision-making as mayor. Parker made public her tax forms [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 4:56pm EST
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• Houston mayoral candidate Gene Locke releases income tax returns; view the tax returns here

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  Houston mayoral candidate Gene Locke released three years of income tax returns today, following a request by Texas Watchdog on Nov. 4 for Locke and opponent Annise Parker to release their tax returns. Parker released forms for herself and her longtime domestic partner, accountant Kathy Hubbard, two weeks ago. Check back [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  by Lee Ann O'Neal

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• Texas Watchdog visits Locke campaign event, queries candidate (updated)

  —blogHOUSTON

  SINCE CANDIDATE GENE LOCKE'S STAFF wouldn't return Texas Watchdog's calls about his tax returns, Texas Watchdog dropped by a campaign event to get candidate Locke on the record. Locke tells the nonprofit journos he will release his tax returns "so... [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  

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• Houston mayoral candidate Gene Locke tells Texas Watchdog he will release tax forms “soon” (with video)

  —Texas Watchdog

  Houston mayoral hopeful Gene Locke will release his tax forms “soon,” he told Texas Watchdog Monday evening at a fundraiser in River Oaks. A cordial Locke emerged from a maroon Chevrolet SUV, with his wife at his side, and said he was ready to release the personal tax forms to “everybody.” [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by Lee Ann O'Neal and Steve Miller

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• Texas Watchdog on parking commissioners and conflicts

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  TEXAS WATCHDOG reports interesting details on the vague "conflict of interest" aside raised by the KPRC-2 story on the Parking Commission that Anne Linehan posted about yesterday: Joe Martin and Bruce LaPree were on the appointed parking commissio... [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:34pm EST
  

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• Clearing up confusion on financial info and political candidates

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  SELF-DESCRIBED "POLITICAL INSIDER" NANCY SIMS admits confusion on a local campaign topic: Texas Watchdog is calling out Locke for not releasing his income tax returns. Parker has released hers. Locke might as well. This issue has always confuse... [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:23am EST
  

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