Criminal justice

Most agencies release their data with little hassle. Not the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency.

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Your afternoon reading.

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With some notable exceptions, few political donors cut checks to both candidates.

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We've added Texas A&M to our payroll database, so now you can compare both coaches' salaries. Let's hope next week's game isn't so lopsided.

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The Texas Supreme Court today freed Texas A&M University from further liability in the decade-old bonfire case.

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Analyzing unemployment in Texas: What would Google do?

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Gov. Rick Perry won't grant clemency to Robert Lee Thompson, who was sentenced to death under Texas' controversial "law of parties."

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Could Sarah Palin be far behind?

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An easy guide to visualizing tweets.

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Should the Texas Forensic Science Commission meet in private? The new chairman, John Bradley, says there's a good argument for it.

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Our searchable database of public employees' pay — now featuring data from universities and eight of the state's largest cities.

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Numbers and text don't mix.

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In some places, the governor's border security efforts have led to a reduction in crime — in rural counties, for instance, where there aren't many people and there wasn't much crime to begin with. But in large urban counties like El Paso and Webb, it's a different story.

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State contractors – many of whom get paid top dollar to advise Texas agencies – are largely immune from reporting conflicts of interest.

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All-star Dallas Morning News journalists Lee Hancock and Courtney Perry somehow finagled their way into the apartment of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the army psychiatrist who murdered more than a dozen people at Fort Hood last week.

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There was a bittersweet note of unity preceding what will undoubtedly prove a poignant Veteran’s Day.

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State agencies are spending tens of millions of dollars every year on information technology contract workers, employees who aren’t on the state payroll – but whose pay often dwarfs those who are.

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John Bradley, the Williamson County District Attorney and the newly-appointed chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, spent his morning answering a steady stream of questions from Texas lawmakers. At issue, if and when his panel will re-open the investigation into whether faulty science led to the arson conviction of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed by the state in 2004.

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Texas lawmakers got their chance Tuesday to ask questions about the recent changes on the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Governor Rick Perry replaced several members of the commission – including its chair just days before it was to hear a report that questioned the science used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson deaths of his three children.

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Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley expected some verbal jousting today at the Senate Criminal Justice Committee about his plans for the Texas Forensic Science Commission. He was right.

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