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U.S. Government Accountability Office

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    In Fight Over Flammable Parker County Water Well, Judge Decides Who Is, Isn't A Journalist

    Tricky work deciding who gets the protections of a journalist in court. In the case of a natural gas production company suing a Parker County man who blames it for contaminating his water well, state district Judge Trey Loftin attempted to suss it out in a recent order compelling fracking blogger Sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    GAO: Shale-Gas States Have No Idea Where Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Are

    Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Economides: Texas Lost $7.7 Billion By Not Using Natural Gas To Keep Lights On

    Dr. Michael Economides, author, CNBC regular and University of Houston professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, says Texas lost out on some $7.7 billion between 2005 and 2011 primarily because we didn't use natural gas for electricity. Economides, it should be noted, is a vocal industry ... More >>

  • News

    December 22, 2011

    Beating Up Babes in Toyland

    Perry and Tea Party make a blue Christmas for needy kids.

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Merry Effing Christmas to Rick Perry and the Tea Party -- From the Kids

    ​I'm having particular trouble this year with Toys for Tots. Put it on me for being a grinch. But, look. I see this big smarmy hoopla on the TV news every night with the weatherman and a bunch of shiny-eyed volunteers in North Face parkas handing out useless plastic Big Box crap for the poor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    DynCorp Ex Claims He Was Fired For Blowing Whistle on Wasted Millions

    ​Over the weekend, Newsweek and ProPublica co-published a piece that says, in short: The $6 billion the U.S. government has spent since '02 training the Afghan police force has gone to waste, and the entire program -- which has involved "buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defens ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2010

    An Innovative Court Offers New Tricks to Turn Ex-Prostitutes into Real Working Girls

    ​Over the weekend, Newsweek and ProPublica co-published a piece that says, in short: The $6 billion the U.S. government has spent since '02 training the Afghan police force has gone to waste, and the entire program -- which has involved "buying weapons, building police academies, and hiring defens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    (Last?) Mail Call: The USPS is Considering Shutting Down the Oak Lawn Post Office

    View Larger MapJennifer Fulbright, a United States Postal Service employee for 39 years till her retirement in March 2008, is the secretary and treasurer of the Dallas chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. And she called late last week to dispute the USPS's claim that it's not looking to shu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2008

    Looked Like You Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

    View Larger MapJennifer Fulbright, a United States Postal Service employee for 39 years till her retirement in March 2008, is the secretary and treasurer of the Dallas chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. And she called late last week to dispute the USPS's claim that it's not looking to shu ... More >>

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican!

    View Larger MapJennifer Fulbright, a United States Postal Service employee for 39 years till her retirement in March 2008, is the secretary and treasurer of the Dallas chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. And she called late last week to dispute the USPS's claim that it's not looking to shu ... More >>

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    Ground Meat

    Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2006

    All the Fake News Fit to Air

    Native-born and immigrant both get bled at Swift's beef plant

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Aim right

    The effective liberal

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Laissez les bon temps rouler

    Buzz looks for love in all the wrong places

  • Film

    January 4, 2001

    American High

    With Traffic, Steven Soderbergh takes on the unwinnable drug war

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    From Russia, with bugs

    Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Hide and seek

    Deep Ellum developer Lou Reese bilked a savings and loan, bled his creditors, and walked away from federal prision a rich man. Bragging about it was is one big mistake.

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    The war over Gulf War Syndrome

    Dallas doctors believe they've solved the mystery of sick veterans, but find themselves in "a bloody scientific war" where they are branded charlatans

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