State Watchdogs: Something very strange going on with Houston airport

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
06/29/09 10:30 AM EDT

Lots of independent investigative journalism outfits focused on state and local issues are springing up across the country. One of the best is Texas Watchdog, led by Trent Siebert, a former Nashville Tennessean investigative reporter.

Siebert and a handful of similarly experienced investigative journalists have been at it for three years uncovering all kinds of great stories from one end of Texas to the other. In recent months, they've been paying particular attention to the strange circumstances surrounding the retirement of the Houston Airport System's chief executive.

This looks increasingly like one of those "ball of string stories," but instead of the ball getting smaller as you pull on the string, it keeps getting bigger and bigger as more and more layers of the story are exposed. Check out Texas Watchdog because it is showing the way for independent, online investigative journalism.

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State Watchdogs: Something very strange going on with Houston airport

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
06/29/09 10:30 AM EDT