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FOIFT Board Member Chris Cobler Wins Community Leadership Award

2013-09-30T20:30:24-05:00

Originally printed in Texas Press Messenger, Volume 88, Number 6, June 2013 Chris Cobler, editor of the Victoria Advocate, has received the Frank W. Mayborn Award for Community Leadership from the Texas Press Association. Cobler, editor of the Advocate for six years, accepted the award at the association’s summer meeting in Houston. Cobler is treasurer of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and is a board member of the national Associated Press Media Editors association. He also was a founding member of the Victoria Independent School District Education Foundation. In 2005, Cobler was selected to participate in a Nieman Fellowship [...]

FOIFT Board Member Chris Cobler Wins Community Leadership Award2013-09-30T20:30:24-05:00

Two UT regents accuse fellow regent of abusing power

2013-09-30T18:22:53-05:00

Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, Austin American-Statesman Originally published on June 12, 2013 Continuing demands by a University of Texas System regent for records from the Austin campus amount to an “abuse of power,” according to two fellow regents. Regents R. Steven Hicks and Robert Stillwell charged in emails this week that the actions of Regent Wallace Hall Jr. are intended to discredit the leadership of UT-Austin. The emails, copies of which were obtained by the American-Statesman, signal stepped-up internal strife on what is arguably the most prestigious of hundreds of boards and commissions in state government. The UT System Board of Regents [...]

Two UT regents accuse fellow regent of abusing power2013-09-30T18:22:53-05:00

Isle to discuss legal options against newspaper after report

2013-08-18T16:50:04-05:00

By JOHN WAYNE FERGUSON Originally published by the Galveston County Daily News on May 24, 2013 GALVESTON — The city council Thursday voted to hold a special meeting next week to discuss their legal options against The Daily News after an article unveiling the city’s plans for potential legal action over future public housing on the island. The article was based on a legal opinion written by Dallas attorney Terry D. Morgan. Morgan was commissioned by the city council in March and provided a report to city council members in April. The memo outlines potential ways the city may try to [...]

Isle to discuss legal options against newspaper after report2013-08-18T16:50:04-05:00

Critics Say Bill Does Little To Make Judges More Accountable

2013-08-18T16:54:18-05:00

By Shelley Kofler Originally published by KERA on May 21, 2013 The Texas Senate and House have passed legislation that’s supposed to rein in judges who are abusing or misusing their authority. It’s a problem KERA looked at last year in a special series, Texas Judges: Out of Order. On the House floor last Friday it took less than five minutes to pass Senate Bill 209, legislation designed to make the State Commission on Judicial Conduct more effective. The Commission’s job is to ensure the state’s 3,900 judges comply with standards in the Texas constitution. The commission is responsible for investigating [...]

Critics Say Bill Does Little To Make Judges More Accountable2013-08-18T16:54:18-05:00

Questions of Contradiction in Ethics Bills

2013-08-18T17:05:51-05:00

By Emily Ramshaw and Aman Batheja Originally published May 16, 2013 This is one in a series of occasional stories about ethics and transparency in the part-time Texas Legislature. All session long, freshman state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione has been clamoring for greater transparency, trying to force lawmakers and their relatives to disclose their contracts with government agencies and shine a light on closely held state pension benefits. When his first transparency bill got a committee hearing, his senior House colleagues effectively showed him the door. But when it came time this week to vote on Senate Bill 346, a measure that [...]

Questions of Contradiction in Ethics Bills2013-08-18T17:05:51-05:00

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