Curious which Texans in Congress are investing in oil and natural gas, and who has a wallet full of credit cards? The Clerk’s Office at the U.S. House of Representatives released lawmakers’ 2011 financial disclosure reports today. The Texas Tribune has uploaded all the documents here.
Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy worked at the Tribune from 2010 to 2019. As deputy data visuals editor, he created graphics, interactive stories and data-driven features, wrangled difficult datasets and worked on tools to make development for the team more efficient. He also oversaw the design and maintenance of our large-scale explorers.
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Criminal Justice
“On the Records” Under New Management
Data journalism guru Matt Stiles may have left the building but Ryan Murphy and Becca Aaronson will be keeping the tradition and spirit of @stiles alive by continuing to update the data blog On the Records and the @TribData Twitter account.
Posted inState Government
Interactive: Individual, Candidate and PAC Cash on Hand Totals
Texas politicians and political action committees, or PACS, regularly report their financial activities to the Texas Ethics Commission, and we’ve put some of their numbers into this sortable spreadsheet for comparison. This list includes a mix of what the former group had on hand on June 30 and what the latter group had on hand on July 31.
Posted inState Government
Interactive: How the Seliger Map Would Have Shifted Voters in ’08 and ’10
Lloyd Doggett and Ron Paul aren’t the only Texas congressmen whose districts would be harder to win in 2012 under a new congressional map proposed by State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo.
Posted inPublic Education
Final Update: What $4 Billion Less Means For Your School District
A school finance plan has at last emerged from talks between budget and education chiefs in the House and Senate. Here’s what may be the final update to our searchable database.
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Interactive: What $4 Billion Less Could Mean for Your School District
As the Texas House and Senate haggle behind closed doors over a school finance plan we’ve updated our searchable database to include the latest proposals distributing the $4 billion in state funding cuts.
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Data App: 27 New Entities, 30 Updated in Public Salaries Database
We’ve added 27 new entities — including university systems, transit authorities, and appraisal and school districts — to the Tribune’s government employee salaries database and updated 30 others, bringing the total number to 129, with salary data for 660,000 public employees.
Posted inHigher Education
Interactive: 2006-2010 TEXAS Grant Distributions
The Texas Legislature created the TEXAS (Towards EXcellence, Access and Success) Grant program in 1999 to make higher education more accessible to students from low-income families. Check out the interactive to see how much in TEXAS Grants funding has been allocated to the state’s 94 public colleges and universities between 2006 and 2010.
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Interactive: What $830M in Federal Aid Means for Your School District
Since the repeal of the Doggett amendment on the use of federal education stimulus dollars, $830 million has been rolling in to Texas schools. Use our interactive maps to see which districts benefited and which lost out under the money’s new terms.
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On the Records: Complaints Lead Valley Paper to Pull Salary Data
In an apology issued Thursday morning, The Monitor announced that, in response to reader complaints, it will remove public school district salary data it posted earlier this week.