in Houston, TexasHOMEFeatured ReportsBlogVideosABOUTAwardsContact usNewsletterSubscribeMonday, 06/17/2013 - 10:28AMThank you for reading and for your support. We will miss you.By Trent SeibertTuesday, 02/19/2013 - 03:03PMPublicly-funded gondolas a ‘viable transportation alternative’ for Round Rock, Texas?By Mark LisheronThursday, 02/14/2013 - 05:33PMAustin Energy customers foot bill – $2 a month per customer for 19 years – for idled biomass plantBy Mark LisheronTuesday, 01/22/2013 - 03:55PMTexas props up wind, solar with hundreds of millions of dollars per year, lawmakers cautious on more $By Mark LisheronTuesday, 12/11/2012 - 09:49AMTexas couple fit to be tied in red tape, stimulus weatherization cash more trouble than it was worthBy Mark LisheronWatchdog DailyMonday, 06/17/2013 - 09:22AM | By Trent SeibertThank you for reading and for all of your support. We will miss you.Regular readers to Texas Watchdog may have noticed there hasn't been much posted to the site over the past several months. The reason is simple:...2 CommentsTuesday, 02/12/2013 - 03:01PM | By Mark LisheronValero tells the tax man what’s what, awarded $5 million in overpaid taxesMemo to southeast Texas oil companies: you might want to have your people give your local tax bills the old once over before sending off a...0 CommentsThursday, 02/07/2013 - 02:42PM | By Mark LisheronPension finances, local government debt targeted in Texas transparency billsA quartet of the most powerful legislators in Texas filed bills Thursday to make available to the public detailed financial information from most local...2 CommentsTuesday, 02/05/2013 - 03:47PM | By Mark LisheronPensions of former Texas lawmakers can be kept secret: JudgeTexas District Judge Lora Livingston Tuesday ruled the state is not obliged to tell the public how much it pays in pensions to former members of the...0 CommentsMonday, 02/04/2013 - 12:33PM | By Mark LisheronDazzled by promise of rail, Austin leaders still need to persuade publicHaving followed Texas Watchdog’s coverage of Austin’s rail rapture, you can be forgiven for assuming the movement remains earthbound...2 CommentsFriday, 02/01/2013 - 04:37PM | By Mark LisheronPresident’s jobs council disbands; economist: ‘I didn't even remember we had one’Grief-stricken that after spending $7.66 trillion to get us going again our economy is shrinking and our unemployment is growing, I turned this week to...0 CommentsWednesday, 01/30/2013 - 04:49PM | By Mark LisheronNewspaper notice law ‘horse and buggy’ thinking, Rep. Jonathan Stickland wants governments in Texas to post onlineYou can already hear a distant drumbeat, the pounding of 40-gallon drums holding printer’s ink.Freshman state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, who...0 CommentsTuesday, 01/29/2013 - 03:03PM | By Mark LisheronSurplus refunded to taxpayers under Gov. Rick Perry’s planFlush with an oil and gas-generated surplus of nearly $9 billion, Gov. Rick Perry has called for a change in the Texas Constit