On August 22, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) asked HUD to approve a modification of GLO’s controversial decision to…
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Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City
Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The Explosion…
Will Texas learn a lesson from the tragedy at West?
Everyone is horrified at the loss of life and destruction last night from the explosion of a fertilizer plant in…
Candidate for most outrageous quote of 2012: HNTB says Texas disaster recovery program is “on target and on budget”
Austin American Statesman reporter Brenda Bell has an amazing quote from HNTB in her story today about the HUD audit of…
A “new sheriff” takes over Texas disaster recovery
(Photo: Texas General Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, from Texas Tribune) Readers will recall Governor Perry passed responsibility for the Hurricane…