Politicians for Sale

They are a dime a dozen in Texas.  Cheap!  Unless you're the taxpayer footing the bill.Munoz' ties to 281 toll road create trail of corrupt...

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Royalty Rip Off?

So far cities have sued Chesapeake.  The airport sued Chesapeake.  School Districts have sued them.  The Tarrant Regional Water District (of all people!) has sued Chesapeake.  Even the Bass family.Now, it's YOUR turn. If you feel you were screwed, show up. 6 p.m. Tuesday, September...

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Join them

You could be next.NO TOLL R...

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Blackland Tollway meeting on 9/11

Is that a sign?We hear there is another meeting on the Blackland Tollway, though many out that way haven't heard about it yet. Ask WHY.Thursday, September 11, 20147:00 PM - 8:30 PMGarland Central Library (Downtown)North Program Room625 Austin StGarland, TX 75...

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Blackland Tollway meeting - Take 2

The new date, time and place has been set for the Blackland Tollway meeting. Maybe the public will get to speak at this one. The COG and those other groups may want to pack their lunch.Monday, September 22nd - 6:30Rockwall Performing Arts Center1201 T.L. Townsend DriveRockwall, Texas 75...

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YOU are invited!

The Trinity River Vision will be appointing people to the Economic Development Board (read - Slush Fund) on Wednesday at 2:00 at the Tarrant Regional Water District.Come one, come all!  Learn WHO spends YOUR money on WHAT!!Come early, we know how they pack the room with their supporters & staff...

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Calling Collin County

Fire marshal shuts down Blacklands toll road hearing500 people showed up & just as it was getting hot, they shut it down!The Northeast Gateway Turnpike would run on the east side of Lake Lavon.Wow! There's just something about these private toll road scams that get under the skin of Texans.Last...

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Residents say NO WAY to Tollway

Well, they would have, if they weren't kicked out before getting an opportunity to speak.  The meeting was shut down by the Fire Marshall due to too many people showing up.  Did you hear that?  TOO MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP!  Collin County, we are very impressed.  It's estimated...

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Story remains the same, only the names have changed

According to the preliminary maps for the Blackland Tollway /Northeast Gateway Corridor Project, this project will run very close if not through my family’s home and property. While we are not huge acreage holders, we do have a home on two acres and have paid taxes to Rockwall County for over 25 years....

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No more Downtown Parking means..

No more downtown.We received an email concerning the Bass Hall Parking issue.  It made us think about the Cultural District parking issue.  We noticed we go there much less frequently since we have to pay to park and the garage is always so crowded and/or malfunctioning when you are trying...

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Seen this??

Get ready for your toll roads, DFW.TxDOT bails out toll roadsSH 130 & Loop 49 just for startersTransportation Commission votes to 'forgive' $55 million loan to Tyler toll authority (for Loop 49) and gives $32 million to subsidize lower truck toll rates on SH 130 (again!). Meanwhile, the toll authority...

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Oops, they did it again

The Fort Worth Weekly recently called out the Tarrant Regional Water District for spending taxpayer money on radio ads. Well guess what? They still do. When asked about it, they said, "I don't know".Read both Static's this week, they are too good to pass up. Ads Don’t Add...

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Stand With Mary Kelleher Against Abuse of Power

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NEXT, PLEASE!!

Breaking news- Rick Perry Indicted?? Abuse of Power??FBI in Dallas, Grand Jury in Austin, WHO is coming to Tarrant County?It's been busy out here today.Stay tun...

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Dallas, Fort Worth - same difference

The FBI is looking at the kick backs and pay offs in Dallas.  We can't wait till they come to Cowtown.Read all about the John Wiley Price scam on Wfaa.comCompared to Tarrant County, well, there is no comparison.Why vendors who allegedly funnelled money to John Wiley Price may not be char...

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WHERE does your city get water?

If your city purchases water from Fort Worth, via the Tarrant Regional Water District, be prepared.  YOU are going to get hosed.You can read about it in the Startlegram.  Water rates in Fort Worth are also expected to climb as the price of raw water continues rising, said Kara Shuror, assistant...

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Stop the Presses!

The seemingly bipolar editorial board at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has written about Ann Sutherland in the past, especially when she was censured for asking for too much information, etc.  (No, the Tarrant Regional Water District is not at all original...and for those of you WHO don't know,...

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Come one, come all!

To a meeting on the biggest Boondoggle Fort Worth ever saw!Monday August 4th @ 6:001000 Calvert Street - Fort WorthWHO are the partners? WHO profits? WHO pays?Tired of the BS? Come see us Monday!Attend an informational open house on Aug. 4 to learn about construction of three signature bridges that...

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Dear FBI,

While we are glad you got your man, slide about 30 miles West, would ya?  $950,000 is chump change in Fort Worth dollars.Read about the John Wiley Price arrest on NBC5. Price Arrested, Accused of Taking $950K in BribesA 13-count indictment released Friday says longtime Dallas County Commissioner...

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Please Help Support Denton's Fracking Ban for a Frack Free Denton

City Council denied the ban: time to get out the vote!Donate now to help launch our get out the vote effort todayDear Star-Telegraph,First, let me thank you for your support for Denton's fracking ban on behalf of everyone at Earthworks and Frack Free Denton.At the 8-hour, 500+ person public hearing...

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Calling McClatchy Shareholders

Wondering why you're losing your audience and money?  Let us count the ways.It could be the incorrect reporting.  Or the completely biased take by whoever is left at the local rag.  (We're told today's editorial was written by a photographer).  It could be the way they miss big,...

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Editorial Board - "Garbage"

We were sent the following from a reader who is tired of the trash in Fort Worth, both at the "news" paper and at the Tarrant Regional Water District.  Both the paper and the TRWD have become such a joke, it's an embarrassment to Tarrant County, to Texas, to real news outlets and real water districts...

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Star-Telegram Reader Review

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Sexist Pig??

Durango calls out the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and their least favorite columnist, again. Can some woman, preferably employed at the Star-Telegram, tell us how Bud Kennedy is still working there?And here's to hoping the 'Dallas Boogey Man', who owns businesses in Fort Worth, is looking to buy a new...

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Drowning in Fort Worth

The Tarrant Regional Water District just keeps on giving.  Not only do they give your money away, they give writers worth their weight all kinds of fodder.Durango tells you about the latest (probably Fort Worth Star-Telegram driven) attack on Mary Kelleher.And Don Woodard has been keeping the masses...

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Fort Worth is at it again. " The public be damned"

The latest scheme is addressed in the Fort Worth Business Press.  Read it, YOU can't afford not to.The folks at Fort Worth City Hall are trying to pull a fast one. Surprise, surprise, as the long-ago TV sitcom philosopher Gomer Pyle liked to say.This is the same City Hall, after all, that hatched...

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THEY don't trust you

The Fort Worth Planning and Zoning Commission denied the plans for the Stockyards redevelopment this week.  Seems they "have a real problem with how quickly this was put in front of the community and in front of us".  The P&Z is still concerned the council will pass it anyway. We received...

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TxDOT on notice

Politicians who support this trash, YOU are too.Read all about the circus here - Stop light onslaught proposed for 281 draws record crowdThe Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) struck a nerve yesterday, and it wasn’t pretty. Nearly 300 angry residents of the Bulverde-Spring Branch area showed...

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Tale of Two Boondoggles...

That's the title of Don Woodard's latest dissertation in the Fort Worth Business Press.YOU should pay attention, YOU can't afford not to.And all you Merle Haggard fans, be sure and check it out.  Don't say you weren't warned.The tollway was built over the objections of many farmers in the area...

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Water District Bully

Fort Worth Weekly calls out Jim Oliver, again. When Karma finally gets here, we have a feeling she is going to be PISSED.Water DisputesKelleher, Fort Worth Weekly, and many others have danced with the district when it comes to public information, and this is how it often goes: You ask for information....

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Texas - Toilet to Tap. Drink up

What happened to OUR water?Men's Journal explains.Who Stole the Water?How greed, drought, and rampant overdevelopment are sucking Texas dry.And so on, from Oregon to grain-belt states like Kansas and Oklahoma: They've faced droughts before, but this one is different, particularly in a place like Texas....

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Trinity River Trash

The Water Board spin off, the Trinity River Vision, is keeping it classy. Good thing they are spending their own money. Oh, wait...none of that is true.Read about the latest fiasco on Duran...

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You heard that right...

No we're not talking about the ads the water board is running on the other stations. We're talking about the ad on WBAP, for Dallas. Hu...

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And the winner is...

Haltom City had a run off election on Saturday and Trae Fowler won, again. That is after having to fight all the rumors that some city employees were spreading (is that legal? ethical?).There seems to be a lot of rumors floating around Haltom City these days.  Some with proof showing up in snail...

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More, Nothing was ever done....

They are jacking up your air and your water, now it's all gone to sh**.  Literally.Read about the biosolids battle in Wise County on WFAA. Is Wise county upstream from YOU?"The notion that the TCEQ is proactive is a joke,” said Midlothian resident Craig Monk. “They are reactive, and they are only...

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Fort Worth Floating

No, we don't mean the Tubing the Trinity/Floating with Feces.  We mean the inadequate storm drainage that caused havoc all over Fort Worth yesterday when a few inches of rain fell.Since "nothing was ever done", can you image what is going to happen when we get a few feet of rain falling?We noticed...

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No free rides

Texas Toll Roads going bankrupt. WHO really pays?  YOU know the answer.From San Antonio to Dallas, these roads are failing. And YOU are picking up the tab.In less than two years in operation, the southern 41-mile stretch which opened in October 2012 with much fanfare and boasting by Governor Rick...

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Hello, is this thing on??

It's Business Press. It's not online. Surprise...not.&nb...

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God Save Texas

That's the name of a new HBO series based onTexas politics.Are the writers are Star Telegraph readers?While we're waiting, people like Mary Kelleher, Terri Hall and Calvin Tillman are working to save Texas. One failed agency after another...Read Calvin's letter and join the League of Independent Voters...

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You did it to yourself

HBO is creating a show about Texas politics.Who could blame them?Some of our Texas politicians and Texas politics provide the world so much embarrassing material that it's so good (which is bad) that it's like a funny sit-com that writes itse...

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YOU are invited

Media Alert Citizens’ Groups to Take on State and EPA over “Close Enough” DFW Air Plan for NewSmog Standard at Monday MeetingDownwinders: Agencies “breaking the law” if new controls aren’t required for cement kilns and gas compressorsWhat: Regional Clean Air Meeting on New Anti-Smog PlanWhen: Monday, June 16th 10 to 12 noon(citizen presentations from 11 to 12)Where: North Central Texas...

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Panther Island Boondoggle drowning Tarrant Taxpayers

A $65.5 million contract has been awarded by the Texas Department of Transportation for construction of three bridges for the Trinity River Vision boondoggle.  The bridges are the first phase of creating Panther Island, which will include digging a new 1.5 mile channel for the Trinity River, creating...

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School's out......

PRESS CONFERENCEDATE: Thursday, June 12, 2014TIME: 1:30 p.m.WHERE: Neave & Scott, PC, 1819 S. Buckner Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75217WALTER DANSBY SAGA CONTINUES. DAYS BEFORE FWISD SUPERINTENDENT RESIGNS, JUDGE SIGNS MULTI-MILLION JUDGMENT AGAINST FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. SEPARATE LAWSUIT...

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You're Invited

The now earthquake-prone region of Azle and Reno will be the focus of the panel discussion “What’s Behind the North Texas Quakes?” set for 7 p.m. June 18 at Azle High School, 1200 Boyd Road.The area northwest of Fort Worth was rocked by more than 30 minor earthquakes in a three-month span, rattling...

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They are coming for the Stockyards

Sounds like the two old cowboys are having a showdown over our stomping grounds.So those of you who love it for what it is , better hurry. It's about to be a strip mall.And don't even get us started on when they finally get their beloved casino down there. Ever been to Shreveport?Read all about it ...

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If you know what's good for you

You'll be here on the 21...

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What kind of water does Texas have?

Flaming water.You can now see it on national 'news'.Watch Lipsky on MSN...

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Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Dansby Resigns

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Water Bully

No, we're not talking about the Tarrant Regional Water District, for once.  This time it's Dallas.When are they going to learn?  Marvin Nichols isn't the answer. Will someone please get the board bobble heads to think outside of the box?Kudos to Rep. Simpson for standing up for THE PEOPLE....

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