Less than 230 local entities have even one transparency star. Why is that?

Public safety is increasingly being outsourced and privatized in Texas neighborhoods due to a crumbling trust in local government. What do you think will be best?

Cities are spending millions clearing homeless encampments…but the tents keep coming back. Why are we constantly told that homelessness is solved, and yet we can't seem to see it for ourselves?

DAs across the state are refusing to enforce the law. That spells trouble for the rest of us.

Public corruption is widespread, and local officials make up a large number. What's going on?

Baytown is getting a massive stadium, but no one knows when, why, or where.

Another Texas town abolishes its police force, an outlier or the new norm?

While state law bans quotas on tickets, it says nothing about quotas on traffic stops. Not much different, is it?

Bills targeting billions of dollars in local transit dollars died in calendars committee. Local taxpayers deserve to know why.

Small-town corruption is often more offensive than in big cities. This one from Edcouch, TX, is no different.