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- David Frederick Cary Sentenced
- BARNETT WALKER, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2 IN COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS
- SHARON RAMAGE, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2 IN COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS
- Sonja Hammer 1935-2012
- Still Waiting for a Primary Date
- JODY JOHNSON, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE 380TH DISTRICT COURT OF COLLIN COUNTY
- Observer's notebook on the campaign trail
- Board of District Judges appoint a District Clerk
- ANDREA STROH APPOINTED COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT CLERK
- District Clerks Corruption Trial – CLOSING ARGUMENTS
- WE HAVE A VERDICT IN THE DISTRICT CLERKS CORRUPTION CASE
- WE HAVE A VERDICT IN THE DISTRICT CLERKS CORRUPTION CASE
- District Clerk's trial: A surprising morning!
- DMN exiles columnist to Collin County
- Yes,, Attorneys are Expensive - Aaaand we're back - Day 4 of the District Clerks Trial
- Cousins, Babysitters, and Snow Days - More from Day Three of the District Clerk Trial
- The District Clerk’s Trial – Day 3
- The District Clerks trial: Day 2
- The District Clerks trial: Day 1
- Terri Green running for the 380th District Court
- Wooten given probation (Updated and expanded)
- Court issues the final redistricting maps. Maybe 'final', maybe not
- A big day Monday. Making room for two corruption trials
- FDWIIL: Innocence Lost
- Wooten Guilty! (Updated and extended)
- Wooten waits for the verdict (updated)
- Federal Court proposes redistricting plans
- Judge Suzanne Wooten case given to the jury
- Jerry Madden to retire from the Legislature
- Judge Suzanne Wooten Trial: Day 5
- Judge Suzanne Wooten Trial: Day 4
- Chuck Ruckel announces for Justice of the Peace, 3-1
- Judge Suzanne Wooten Trial: Day 3
- A Witness For The Prosecution
- District Clerk's Case Set for Trial
- Constitutional Amendments results, 2011
- Judge Suzanne Wooten trial: Day 1 (updated)
- An upcoming exciting week at the courthouse
- Candidates for the 67th District of the Texas Legislature
- A Texas Bar Card – Don't Leave Home Without It
- John Quinn was shot by the police, then found innocent
- Early Voting begins Monday
- The 70th District race getting interesting!
- Republicans running for Commissioner's Court, Pct 3
- Candidates for the 70th District of the Texas Legislature
- Judge Wooten's Curious Subpoena
- Affluent Collin County has poverty?
- Judge Jerry Lewis retires
- Allen ISD votes for a 'good' tax raise
- Pre-Trial Hearing Goes Badly for Judge Wooten and District Attorney Willis
- US Supreme Court denies Charles Dean Hood new trial (again)
- Wooten, Willis gets a strike out ; Judge Kerry rules for the AG
- Appointments for the Civil Service
- Sheriff's employees vote for Civil Service
- FDWIL: Meet the Candidates for the 199th District Court, Collin County
- Collin County Courthouse Loses Power - Judge Blows a Fuse
- Shapiro will not seek re-election
- New Trial Date Set in Judge Suzanne Wooten case
- Deadbeat Mom jailed: You can't afford cigarettes!
- The Disingenuous Mr. Willis
- The previous DA was recused, but Willis files a motion in Wooten case.
- Who You Gonna Call When The Courts Break The Law?
- No Speedy Trial For Judge Suzanne Wooten
- The Collin County Observer adds a reporter
- About half Collin County ISDs lose rating, with Wylie ISD at the bottom
- District Clerks' trial scheduled for November
- McKinney Planned Parenthood bombed
- Very sorry for technical issues
- Collin County Court Chutzpah
- Judge jails previous opponent - and response
- Is innocence, innocence?
- NTTA to raise tolls
- Details of the district clerks’ indictments
- District Clerks indicted again on corruption
- The Collin County Observer
- DMN - Texas businesses serving frail warn cuts would close their doors
- DMN - Collin County Commissioners Court hears complaints about long voter lines
- DMN - Paxton not backing out of speaker's race
- DMN - Recent Collin County grand jury and former DA Roach criticize each other
- FE- Assistant DA indictment quashed
- FE- Assistant DA indictment quashed
- FDWI - Indictment of Collin County's First Assistant DA - An Analysis By Local Defense Attorney
- Collin County First Assistant to the DA, Greg Davis Indicted
- DMN - Plano City Hall granting fewer wishes, targeting more urgent charity needs this year
- DMN - Commissioner Hoagland was a constant in fast-changing Collin County
- DMN - Plano opening unusual interchange at U.S. Highway 75 and Parker Road
- DMN - After 20 years on Collin County court, world's youngest judge as committed as ever
- DMN - Volunteers work to add beds at Collin County homeless shelter by Christmas
- DMN - Several area cities acting to annex land
- DMN - A few in Collin County fight for the bridge that wasn't
- DMN - Texas earns a D for charter schools as Frisco group plans its first
- Collin County offers free flu vaccine for children available; adult doses for $10
- DMN - Collin town feels its way after 3 resignations
- Paxton supporters question Texas House Speaker Straus' Judaism
- The Lucas Mayor, City Manager and a City Council member offered their resignations
- DMN - Exide battery recycling smelter lands Frisco on list of areas violating new federal lead standard
- DMN - Collin County DA's office headed for image makeover
- McKinney Courier-Gazette - Local parties, professor discuss congressional divide
- DMN - Collin County Paxton joins the Speaker's race
- Exide to test Frisco residents for lead in their blood
- DMN - Collin County judge says "vote center" system may have contributed to long lines on election day
- DMN - Collin County Judge Keith Self heads toward a second term
- The Texas Observer - Voting Problems in Collin County
- DMN - Software glitches cause delays at Collin County polling places
- Technology issues reported at Collin County vote centers
- Jaynes refuses to attend executive session
- DMN - Keeping up with the DA's battles
- DMN - 2,500 Collin County residents get tax mailers addressed to New Mexico
- DMN - Editorial: Courthouse circus in Collin County
- DMN - Trial for 6 Collin County clerk's office employees postponed until 2011
- DMN - Collin County DA's office recuses itself from prosecuting district clerk supervisors
- District Attorney screwed up District Clerks' case
- Twenty-five Quarter Horses Rescued
- DMN - Couple in custody battle accused of paying judge for favorable rulings
- DMN - GOP reigns in Dallas-area suburbs
- DMN - Divided GOP may be factor in Collin County judge campaign
- CBS-11: Collin County Judge Suspended Following Indictment
- FDWI Blog - How To Gut Your Own Case: Collin Dsitrict Clerks Case
- Update - Observer Publisher recovering from stroke
- DMN Opinion Blog - Could Spanish get deal to toll Collin County highway?
- DMN - State District Judge Suzanne Wooten, others, indicted on bribery charges related to 2008 campaign
- Forum for county-level races boasts full participation
- Wooten indictment
- DMN - Frisco's Exide plant to make upgrades in effort to cut lead emissions
- DMN - Collin County kills Lake Lavon bridge project
- Statesman.com - E-voting case goes to Texas Supreme Court
- Lavon Lake bridge route - Notice of Public Hearing
- Possible mountain lion in Frisco
- Statesman.com - Texas judges run in the dark
- DMN - Frisco battery recycling plant to test residents' blood levels for lead
- McKinney Courier-Gazette - DA pulls 100 indictments from Wooten's court, Wooten's attorney says Roach has "lost his mind"
- News Release from Collin County DA John Roach
- myFOXdfw.com - McKinney Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
- DMN - Nonprofit clinic to treat the poor opens today in West Plano
- DMN - Feud escalates between Collin County District Attorney John Roach, state District Judge Suzanne Wooten
- Collin DA John Roach, foes ready for his retirement
- DMN - Trial of district clerk supervisors to move
- Observer Publisher recovering from stroke
- Criminal investigation looks for stolen money in JP Court
- DMN - Judge refuses to move trial of Collin clerk's office supervisors accused of falsifying records
- DMN - Collin County commissioners' vote not to include vision, dental care services in '11 grants
- DMN - Editorial: David Smith for Collin County judge
- Judge Wooten subpoenas Roach and staff (Updated twice)
- Arlington's Victor Vandergriff new NTTA chairman
- IN RE: Attorney Pro Tem appointment: Judge Wooten fires another salvo
- Auditor reports money missing from Johnny Lewis' Justice of the Peace court
- DA's Chief Investigator Novaline Varner to retire
- Collin Judge and DA battle it out with dueling special prosecutors
- FDWI Blog - Scott Becker Appointed to the 219th District Court
- District Clerk begins lay-offs
- County's water and air quality in the news
- Tornado Dallas!
- MCG - First McKinney city budget hearing to be held Tuesday
- Retracted - The Campaignmobile, the clerk and the law - Updated
- We have met the enemy and he is us
- DMN - Retiring Collin County district clerk waits to see if she'll face criminal charges
- Battle lines bein' drawn
- Perspectives on the pension plan budget fight
- Crigger and five deputy district clerks plea and face 'speedy trial'
- PSC - DART saves Senior Rides program
- FWW - Fusing Fear and Data
- Collin County Observer subpoenaed
- MCG - Local reporters subpoenaed in district clerk case
- DMN - Plano coming to terms with new identity, needs
- DMN - Frisco's air has too much lead under new federal pollution rules
- DMN - 13,000 pages of evidence filed in case against Collin County District Clerk supervisors
- K-2 bans: faux reefer madness or public safety imperative?
- District Clerkgate judge been there before
- MCG - Pogue Construction founder faces sentencing in late August
- WFAA - Homeless shelter backs off plan to expand in Plano
- The Collin County Commissioners Court: great theater
- Homeless shelter grant fails to clear Plano City Council
- DMN - Transportation blog: Jane Willard to replace NTTA Chairman Paul Wageman as board's Collin County representative
- PSC - Plano employees file suit; seek break, overtime pay
- Vote Centers: Expert's report and public hearing today
- Budget proposal cuts district clerk staff and retiree benefits
- DMN - After indictments, future of Collin County district clerk's office hazy
- Today's local media coverage of District Clerk charges
- FE - Frisco avoids low-income housing lawsuit
- Large cuts to District Clerk budget to be proposed
- WFAA - Plano homeowners gripe about homeless shelter plan
- DMN: Frisco Blog - City of Frisco proposes property tax rate increase
- DA: District Clerk's office padded time, attendance records
- Corruption: Collin County Style
- DMN - District clerk's office padded time, attendance records with hundreds of false entries
- Group holds panel discussion on developmental disabilities
- PSC guest opinion - Chuck Bloom: The real story behind Samaritan Inn in Plano
- Jaynes proposes employee medical plan savings
- Just another Texas day at Level Orange
- DMN community opinion - Lynne Sipiora: Collin County needs to shelter its homeless
- Surrender!
- Six in district clerk's office indicted by Grand Jury (Updated)
- Plano African American Museum grant request sparks debate
- County budget shortfall eases - hiring freeze lifted
- WFAA - Non-profit group will operate Plano rec center
- AIR POLLUTION WARNING - LEVEL ORANGE
- David Rippel: Campaign Finance Reports reflect a judge who just can't obey the law
- DMN - Homeless shelter director says need must trump Plano residents' opposition
- PSC - Council to decide fate of Douglass Community Center
- Congressman Ralph "Tea" Hall
- DMN - As aging baby boomers head to suburbs, Collin County to feel impact
- DMN - Editorial: Tollway agency works to restore confidence
- DNT extension approval along county line is a big defeat for Keith Self
- A brutal demolition
- The candidates respond to proposal for DA to act as county's civil attorney
- The high cost of running unopposed
- DMN - Anna officials say liquor sales have boosted revenue
- July campaign finance reports posted
- Veteran's Memorial in McKinney funded and set to build
- DMN - Plano weighs plan to build long-term homeless housing facility
- District Judges,staff solve Collin County Budget crises??
- DMN - Collin DA John Roach, foes ready for his retirement
- "The DA vs. the Judge" or "In re: Grand Jury Proceedings" (UPDATED)
- DMN Editorial - Harassment lawsuits endanger free speech
- A culture of dishonesty
- Taxpayers Shanghied?
- Rangers allege fraud and conspiracy at District Clerk's office
- DPS Statement on Courthouse raid
- Texas Rangers raid Courthouse
- The NTTA machine and me
- Reeves guilty
- DMN - Planned Fort Worth-McKinney rail line to seek private partner
- May, 2010 Local Election Results (Updated)
- R & R - Don't forget to vote early
- Two editorials on the Supreme Court's Charles Dean Hood non-decision
- SCOTUS: No new trial for Charles Dean Hood
- Engineering contracts grow and grow and.....
- NTMWD begins work at Heard Sanctuary
- Captain Rebecca "Becky" Borton, 1965 - 2010
- DMN - Shed no tears for Hoagland as he exits stage
- DMN - Voters push Collin County more to the right
- DBJ - Rodman LLC is closing, laying off 242 (Updated 4/15)
- Oklahoma seizes Frisco insurance company
- DMN - Veteran Collin commissioner Hoagland loses runoff to former Plano council member Williams
- PSC - Taylor, Williams win in runoff
- Final 2010 Primary Run-off Voting results
- Incomplete 2010 Primary Run-off Voting results
- 2010 Primary Run-off Early Voting results
- Good taste is not on the menu
- Larger turnout than normal expected in Tuesday's run-off
- Sheriff seeks funds for mental health diversion study
- DMN - Texas House race in Plano a bitter one
- The Fair Market Value of a seat in the Legislature is...
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off: Campaign Finance Reports
- DMN - Judge delays showdown between Plano officials, gadfly
- DMN - Appellate court will weigh Plano principals' role in banning religious candy canes
- Notes from the run-off campaign trail (Doing the nasty)
- Democrat objects to commissioners' health care resolution
- Public Hearing scheduled in Dallas on Frisco low income housing project
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off, Collin County Commissioners Court , Precinct 2
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off: Collin County Court at Law # 6
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off: Collin County Court at Law # 4
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off: Collin County Court at Law # 3
- 2010 GOP Primary run-off: 219th District Court
- McKiiney calls bond election
- DMN - McCall next chancellor of Texas State Universities
- The Observer interviews Jerry Hoagland and Cheryl Williams
- Gov. Mark White on the Charles Dean Hood case
- TxDOT schedules public hearings
- Davidson wins Plano City Council run-off
- Plano City Council run-off: Early voting results
- Election day for Plano run-off
- The Colony gives 'finger' to Frisco
- PSC - Douglass community speaks out against plans to outsource center
- Dallas Morning News once again 'recommends' Mabrie Jackson
- DMN Transportation Blog - Dueling gets serious between 2 tollway authorities
- County reasserts claim to Dallas Tollway extension
- DMN - Defendant's bid to plead guilty before judge not an open-and-shut case in Collin County
- Jackson and Taylor in another forum
- Samaritan comes to aid of History Center
- CR - Hundreds of Celina area residents let NTTA know preferred route for tollway extension
- It's spring break at the Commissioners' Court
- Forty indicted in East Texas & Collin County mortgage fraud scheme (Updated)
- DMN - Collin County's first charter school moves a step closer to opening
- Sea change time for Collin College?
- DMN Local Voices - Justin P. Nichols of Plano: Local political forums encourage apathy
- DMN - Many in Collin County jumping at chance to serve on city councils, school boards
- The Observer interviews the Plano City Council candidates
- New sales tax data improves for Collin County cities
- DMN - Collin County at bottom of federal funds distribution
- WFAA - Stakes high as cities debate proposed tollway routes
- SCOTUS refuses to hear appeal in Collin County Execution
- Candidate Forum videos: Plano City Council run-off
- Reeves withdraws from JP#4 race & goes to court
- Can we afford our history and our culture? (updated March 8)
- WFAA - History museum loses funding, in jeopardy of closing
- Two transportation public meetings scheduled for next week
- Arts Center's Simpson fires back
- Will voter fatigue be a factor in run-offs?
- Arts Hall: On again, but for how long?
- Vote counting and baby girls
- Final 2010 Primary Election Results (All Precincts reporting)
- Reeves accused of violating notary laws: Notarizing own signature
- DMN - Collin County election results delayed amid heavy voter turnout
- Latest Primary results 73% of precincts reporting (Updated)
- Continuing Election Results from the Collin County 2010 Primaries
- Early voting Results from the Collin County 2010 Primaries
- 2010 Primary Early Voting results
- Voter turnout is heavy - long lines in some locations
- Texas Independance Day
- 2010 Primary Election Day!
- Collin County murderer to be executed Tuesday (updated)
- DMN - History center in McKinney fighting to survive
- County to spend $5 million on Outer Loop condemnations (updated)
- CSI Frisco: The Mark Lyle Bell episode
- Wylie looking to get arty
- DMN Editorial - Three capital cases illustrate how tactics trump truth
- DMN - Heard museum prepares for court fight
- $4 million or $5 million; What's the difference?
- Latest Campaign Finance Reports Online
- Charles Dean Hood's death sentence remanded for new punishment hearing (updated)
- GROUNDBREAKING IN SIGHT FOR ARTS OF COLLIN COUNTY WITH CITY OF ALLEN SUPPORT
- DBJ - Pervasiveness, prosecution of white-collar crime rising
- DMN Editorial - Transit innovation
- DMN Opinion Blog - Keith Self attacks the tactics of ... Keith Self
- DMN - Texas House race starting to get ugly in Plano
- WFAA - Some early voters report problems in Collin County
- NYT - Questions Of an Affair Tainting A Trial
- George Washington's Birthday and admonition on partisan rivalries
- Appeals Court rules for DA
- On the judicial campaign trail
- Last week of early voting!
- DMN Plano Blog - House 66 race gets testy; Jackson attacks foes
- Grits - SCOTUS should "remedy appalling acts by a judge and officer of the court"
- 2006 haunting Van (Exxon) Taylor
- FDWI - Collin County - County Court Q&A Answers
- Judicial qustionnaires - District Court responses
- DMN - Frisco council votes to support reduced-rent apartments
- DMN Editorial - We recommend Hall in 4th Congressional District
- Frisco to consider low income housing proposal tonight
- Healthcare Candidate Forum tonight
- FDWIL - District Attorney Candidate "Best Answers"
- Early voting begins today!
- District Attorney candidate questionnaire responses
- DMN - David Melton of McKinney: Solutions needed for McKinney arts center
- DMN - Candidates for West Plano seat in Texas House digging deep into their own pockets for campaign funds
- Judicial Questionnaires
- DMN - Frisco affordable housing plan gains board's support but meets resistance
- Goebbels and Self: "If you tell a lie big enough..."
- DMN - Editorial: We recommend Muns for Collin County judge
- TT - Primary Color: HD-66 (Featuring Bikini-Babe Voyeur Video)
- DMN Editorial - We recommend Jackson in House District 66
- Auditor audits, cleans own house
- Collin County District Attorney Race Q&A
- Collin County Commissioner, Pct. 2: Campaign contributions and videos
- Collin County Commissioner, Pct. 4: Campaign contributions and videos
- DA uses drug forfeiture money to fight crime!
- Observer posts the latest Campaign Finance Reports
- CBS11 - County In Need Of Advocates For Abused Children
- The Observer is gone fishing
- DMN - Plano's plan for Douglass Community Center draws concerns from neighbors
- FE - Alcohol all the buzz at Frisco council meeting
- Dallas Morning News endorses Ratliff for SBOE
- Courthouse commandos receive order: "Return to Barracks"
- DMN - Area cities spending millions on IT projects
- DMN - Experian to add 300 Allen jobs
- District Clerk: Candidate forum
- 219th District Court: Candidates forum
- Collin County District Attorney: GOP Candidates at forum
- District Attorney race: Campaign contributions
- Observer posts all county campaign finance reports on-line
- County Court at Law #6: campaign contributions
- Judicial Forum: County Court at Law #6
- County Court at Law #4: campaign contributions
- Judicial Forum: County Court at Law #4
- Run-off needed to settle Plano City Council Race
- County Court at Law #3: campaign contributions
- Judicial Forum: County Court at Law #3
- Plano city council special election early voting results (UPDATED)
- TCEQ fines Collin County $2,940
- Commissioners to consider E-Verify
- It's Election Day in Plano!
- The DA's Assest Forfeiture and other county slush funds
- DMN - Candidates spar over conservative credentials in Collin County judge race
- Keith Self and John Muns at the Tea Party Forum
- County Judge: Campaign contributions (updated)
- County Court at Law #2: Campaign contributions
- Justice of the Peace, Pct.4: Campaign contributions
- Judicial Forum: Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4
- Judicial Forum: County Court at Law #2
- 5 minute Interview - Hon. John R. Roach, Jr., incumbent on the 296th District Court
- Court releases Willis Grand Jury report
- DMN - DART considers letting more cities aboard at lower cost
- Collin County Adult Clinic offers free H1N1 shots
- 5 minute Interview - Keith Gore challenger for the 296th District Court
- Attorney General objects to Observer's request for Willis Grand Jury Report
- DMN - Primary fight for Texas House seat in Plano tilts right
- 5 Minute Interview - Scott Becker running for the 219th District Court
- Texas Supreme Court rules against Mother in "Alandra's baby"
- Candidate forums scheduled
- DMN - Opinion allows Collin DA to fund weapons for courthouse security team
- Clips from the Collin County GOP Chair candidates forum
- The Races for County Chair
- State Legislative Races: Campaign contributions
- District Court races: Campaign contributions
- Crime and punishment in Collin County: murder, rape and burglary
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
- NBCDFW - Mileage Meters? Texans Could Get Taxed By the Mile
- DMN - Property tax cap for seniors puts some North Texas cities in a bind
- Allen Patriots hold DA forum - for Republicans only
- David Hall tossed off GOP ballot
- Judge Ray Wheless rushed to hospital [Updated]
- DMN - Collin Higher Education Center in McKinney keeps students at five schools closer to home
- Collin County’s First H1N1 Mass Vaccination Clinic Planned for Saturday, January 16
- Mabrie Jackson - 5 minute interview
- Plano City Council Special Election: Early Voting begins
- Domestic Violence in Collin County
- Collin County Congressional races
- Sajeel Khaleel files for Democratic run for Court at Law #3
- FDWIL - The Race for Justice of the Peace, Pct. 4
- Collin County Health Care Services Reports 1st H1N1 Flu-Related Death
- DMN - Collin County Legislative Races
- DMN - Collin County judge race reflects GOP divide, heads up packed primary ballot
- Koster files for Democratic primary in Commissioners, Pct. 2
- DMN - Frisco homeowner association seeks to centralize city, county and school balloting
- Armed & Dangerous: DA wants to SWAT 'em
- Cities need to be notified when public hearings are planned
- Former Plano councilman David M. Smith enters Democratic Primary for County Judge
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County's 296h District Court
- Gore to challenge John Roach, Jr. for 296th bench
- 2009 in review: 13 more reasons why I write The Collin County Observer
- Solutions to traffic woes anyone?
- Rey Flores files for Justice of the Peace run in Democratic Primary
- Group to hold panel discussion on mental illness and Collin County jails
- Vote 2010
- CBS 11 - Family Of Victim Outraged Suspects' Bond Lowered
- DMN -- NTTA leaders fear Dallas area's push for toll roads is moving too fast
- Merry Christmas
- PSC - Duncan Webb announces bid for county court seat
- Eric Reed pulls out of DA race & endorses De La Garza
- De La Garza files as Democrat for District Attorney race
- DMN - Frisco city officials fear battery recycler's expansion plan would worsen lead levels
- Judge accuses DA of "forum shopping" and "needless expense": DA appeals (updated)
- Officials stay at home for the holidays
- Reuters - Diebold sale challenged
- PSC - Doug Shockey files for Plano Council, Place 3
- PSC - Revised Option 3 receives harsh criticism, further divides east
- Kelley Adley announces run for JP Court, Pct 4
- DMN - Plano school board approves boundary changes
- Reflections after tea (a personal view)
- Commissioners meet in Plano tonight
- County sales tax revenues decline by almost 14% in October
- Collin Red Light Cameras bring in over $4 million
- DMN - GOP hopefuls get litmus test in Tarrant, Collin, Denton counties
- WFAA - Farmersville family left in cold after city orders 'green' system cut off
- Appeals Court refuses to recuse DA in Bell case
- Mark Rusch elected next Local Administrative Judge
- Matthews files for run for Court at Law #3
- DMN - Collin ISDs find redrawing attendance zones is thankless task
- Kathy Fang enters race for Plano City Council
- Campaigning with vendor dollars: The Incumbent's Edge
- Eco-terrorism: Collin County style
- PSC - André Davidson announces race for Plano City Council
- Van Taylor announces run for Texas Legislature, District 66
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County District Clerk
- County makes H1N1 vaccines available at no cost (UPDATED 12/4)
- DMN - Murphy city officials defend officers' response in boy's death
- DMN - Plano ISD parents blast new attendance zone proposals
- Appeals court backs PISD "Candy Cane" policy
- Angelino announces DA run
- County nabs illegal dumpers
- AP - Lost: One Wild Cat in Collin County
- Happy Thanksgiving
- DMN - Date set for public input on Plano school reforms
- Mark Bell's attorneys ask appeals court to force DA off the case
- In Collin County, you might need two courts before you're free
- Collin College teacher named U.S. Professor of the Year
- D Magazine on Judge Sandoval
- Collin County to receive $18 million in State Transportation bond funds
- DMN - Editorial: The McCall Doctrine
- Getting vaccinated in Collin County
- DMN - Shapiro to file for re-election (and run two races at once?)
- H1N1 vaccine available beginning today
- Two local judges targets of grand jury investigations
- Guest opinion - What is going on with PISD?
- DMN - Mabrie Jackson to run for state House seat
- Collin County Legislative races (updated)
- Supervisor demoted over alleged DWI fix
- DMN - Frisco plant exceeds new limit on lead levels
- Burka on McCall
- Why can't the county negotiate its rents too? (updated Nov. 16)
- Courts feature bouncing employees!
- DMN - Brian McCall won't seek re-election
- Open Government: Plano Style
- An ancient creek, a new highway
- Notes on education issues in the news
- TexasTeen Courts adopt non-discrimination policy
- DMN - More Collin County candidates facing primary challengers
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County Court at Law #4
- DMN Plano blog - Plano ISD reforms: Trustees look into magnets
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County Court at Law #2
- Cheryl Williams announces for County Commissioner, Pct. 2
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County Court at Law #6
- Veterans Day Ceremony at future site of Veterans Memorial Park
- Don High announces entry into race for Court at Law 6
- Wylie voters deal yet another blow to trustees
- AP - Texas clinic: Headscarf ban was misunderstanding
- NLJ - When procedure trumps justice
- November 3, 2009 Election Day Vote Centers open for business
- Early Voting turnout dismal
- Wendy McMillon Announces Candidacy for 219th District Court
- H1N1, DHS & OPM
- Second Collin County prosecutor 'resigns' over alleged DWI fix
- FDWIL - The Race for Collin County's 219th District Court
- Tucker announces race for 219th District Court
- Collin County Medical Clinic accused of religious discrimination
- Grits - Does Texas need constables in the 21st century?
- FDWIL - And Now For the Rest of the Story. . .
- Court at Law #3: Angela Tucker
- Former County Judge Harris recovering from bypass surgery
- Election profile: County Court at Law #3
- DMN - Plano's economic development board seeks restraining order against activist
- WFAA - DWI case disappears in Collin County courts
- City of Frisco offers Exide info web site
- Dallas law suit could have huge implications on Collin County convictions
- Guest commentary on commissioners court races
- DMN - Frisco to consider health risk study of battery plant
- 2010 Elections - Commissioners court races
- Vote early - Polls now open
- DMN - Frisco officials fight plans to expand lead smelter
- Campaigning 101, rule 2
- Dems protest and file charges against election judge
- FDWIL - Collin County District Attorney Race Heating Up
- Judge Greg Willis announces for DA race
- DBJ - $60M renovation kicks off at airport
- With two strikes, Wylie ISD still at bat in bond election
- Mass transit sinking in Collin County?
- Jack Hatchell Transit Center to be formally dedicated
- Wylie ex-councilman indicted in diploma fraud
- Willis to resign and announce candidacy on Monday
- DMN - ACLU report accuses Frisco ISD of thwarting learning
- Anti bridge protesters crowd bridge hearing
- Lavon toll bridge public hearing on Wednesday
- The Night of the Living Justice?
- TI begins hiring 250 for new Richardson plant
- Lovejoy tax election results
- TxDOT public hearing scheduled: For what?
- Election Day for Lovejoy, complete with drama
- 10 Year rural paving program to continue at current pace
- County approves 2010 Budget, taxes, and salaries
- Bob's back!: ADB awarded Fusion Center contract
- CBS - Plano: Richest city in US
- DMN - Collin County closing probationer restitution centers
- Curiouser and curiouser: Commissioners may finally award Fusion Center contract
- Plano City Council to consider ethics complaint (Updated)
- DMN -Just in time for Halloween - rabid bats in Plano
- Kunkle confirms retirement - endorses Crigger
- Collin judge to decide SMU/Bush library land suit
- Judge Ray Wheless to take bench in 366th October 1
- FDWIL - New Collin County Judges, Part II
- Nuttier than a Corsicana fruitcake
- Church and County - What wall?
- Politicizing judicial selection (Updated Sept 21)
- Budgets, taxes and service
- Sex, lies and lethal injections
- DMN - Mental services under huge strain in North Texas
- The trains don't run on time
- Governor likely to name judge tomorrow (updated)
- Plano City council approves small tax hike
- Early voting begins for Lovejoy ISD tax vote
- NTEN - US House Science Committee to host Congressional Hearing in McKinney
- Collin County DA will not seek re-election
- CBS 11 - McKinney DWI Suspect Arrested Again
- Collin to take part in vote center pilot despite concerns
- CBS 11 - Release Of DWI Suspect Upsets McKinney Family
- County has Adult Flu shots available
- DA will retry Cuadros-Fernandez
- Advisory Board recommends $147K for non-profit agreements
- God and taxes in Wylie
- Local reactions: Obama speaks to students
- DA issues statement on Cuadros Fernandez
- Fox - Elderly Couple's House Set for Sale
- September 1, 2009
- Unbiased reporting vs blogging?
- U.S. Congressmen Barton, Hensarling, Johnson and Sessions to host Congressional field hearing on healthcare solutions
- William M. (Bill) Boyd 1938-2009
- Appeals court overturns Collin capital conviction
- About the county's new NTTA director
- DMN - Plano ends impact fees on developers
- FB - Collin County Forces Arts Hall Forward
- NCTCOG wants your opinion
- The Outer Loop: A regional perspective and update
- DMN - Connemara Meadow Preserve being restored to its former glory
- DMN - Plano, Richardson to spend $200,000 to make new police gun range safer, quieter
- Collin College cuts tuition, taxes and raises salaries
- PSC - Arts Commission moves forward with building
- NTTA presents a 2009 update - court appoints new board member
- WFAA - Collin County execution overturned
- County proposes a 'flat' 2010 budget
- Brutal fine for old courthouse
- Zebra mussels in Lake Lavon!
- County to receive federal funds for emergency H1N1 vaccine distribution
- November 3 Constitutional Amendment Election
- TW - Competitor claims company tied to Paxton had unfair advantage in winning state contract
- DMN - Plano children's clinic refuses county funds because of reporting requirements
- Revenue enhancement: Collin County style
- Transparency takes huge step backwards in 2010 budget meetings
- FWST - Cintra to get $3.6 Million in toll revenue for being losing bidder on SH121
- Does Collin County understand what a Vote Center is? (updated twice)
- Commissioners plow ahead with redistricting (updated)
- Collin County recovery funding falls way short of average
- DMN - NTTA poised to raise speed limits to 70 on toll roads
- DMN - Military recruiting rises among middle-class, suburban youths in Collin County
- Court may get opportunity to replace NTTA director (updated)
- DMN - Frisco City Council approves Wal-Mart Supercenter
- DMN - Transportation blog: Report slams NTTA's minority contracting practices
- NTTA: Fines for bonds
- Free concert benefits Veterans Memorial Park in McKinney
- DMN - Frisco at center of Denton County alcohol sales lawsuit
- Public Hearings on Countywide Election Day Polling Place Program
- Citizens group to host mental health care discussion
- Frisco homeowners vs Wal-Mart: Round 2
- TEA releases 2009 ISD ratings
- Sandoval does Dallas
- Tax rolls down, taxes up?
- Collin County wants to be your friend
- County's employee clinic wants to buy Intoxilyzer (updated)
- County prepares for Swine Flu (and update)
- Shining a light on Plano political contributions
- Jeff May appointed new Collin County Auditor
- Collin County Democrats elect new Chairman
- Self posts campaign donors' data on web (with corrections)
- Public hearing scheduled for Countwide Vote Center plan
- Redistricting: Gerrymandering and a special case
- DMN - North Texas Tollway Authority OKs rate hike
- While the county fiddles, Johnson gets paid, and paid, and paid
- Judge Barry to retire
- Fox - Sales tax slump threatens city budgets
- Doin' the District Judge shuffle
- Alandra's baby - Update
- What is going on with the Fusion Center contract?
- Taxes for meals
- Local Boards and Commissions allow citizens to serve community
- The Wylie blackout
- Judge Greg Brewer resigns from bench
- Brutalism and the Collin County Courthouse
- KXII - Judge Roach injured by pistol blanks
- Collin County Democratic Party Chair resigns for health reasons
- County jail scorecard: 22 to 0
- CodeRED due for $50,000 renewal - Updated
- Commissioners to consider Outer Loop path - Updated
- DBJ - Collin County foreclosures up 30% from last year
- Why the FAA shot down the drones
- McKinney scores a shutout with SAFETEA-LU earmarks
- Conservative leadership
- NBC5 - Collin County Defines Who's Poor Enough For Care
- DMN - Collin County commissioners approve income cap for those seeking health care from nonprofit agencies
- Special Commissioners Court meeting expected to draw a crowd
- DMN - Collin County nonprofit health clinics struggle to get by
- 33TV - FAA grounds drone proposal
- Where in the world is Don Cozad?
- WFAA - Murphy Dad wants to fix 911 system after son's death
- KRLD - Inmates To Help Clear Storm Mess on Collin County Roads
- DMN - Meals on Wheels cuts services in budget crunch
- Commissioners redistrict JP and Constable precincts
- The county's 'Eye in the sky' request
- Countywide polling places back for consideration.
- Bill Cosby on Frisco
- From drought to a "big wreck"
- ...and dumbest
- MNN - Health Care Crisis In Collin County?
- dumb and dumber
- Panel to discuss non-profit clinics role in health care
- Local red light cameras survive legislature
- County loses, State finds $80,000
- WFAA - Tardy DVD borrowers arrested in Wylie
- C.A.T.S.
- The first national Memorial Day
- County Health Care Advisory and MHMR Boards meet in secret, illegal meetings
- DMN - DART, The T want to partner with private companies to fund Cotton Belt Rail Line
- 1st Amendment clashes in the Bible belt
- Family sues City of Murphy over tot's death
- Alandra's baby
- Justice Collin County style: Be careful what you say in the recovery room!
- Lavon dam opens wide
- Collin County property values declining
- DMN - Judge's orders put Collin County man in Catch-22
- Frisco ISD race final
- WFAA - Fusion Center's spending questioned in Collin County
- Plano Peace Officer Memorial Day Service
- Collin County: diversity and elections
- May 2009 - Collin County Local Election results
- Election Day, 2009!
- DMN Problem Solver: Collin County man held for 83 days for missing jury duty
- Plano Blog - Plano ISD candidates: Latest campaign filings
- Swine Flu update, Collin County - May 6
- WFAA - HOV-related deaths rise to 6; TxDOT dismissed warnings
- Is the Dallas Morning News really going to cover Collin County?
- DMN - Collin County property tax valuations shrinking after years of growth
- Swine Flu update, Collin County - May 5
- CBS - Not The End Of The Affair
- Collin County Swine Flu update - May 4
- Early Voting continues through Tuesday
- Collin County vs. Auditor: Who won? Who lost?
- DMN - Plano fire union's political clout grows
- Richard A. Bode: 1932-2009
- Collin County Swine Flu update - May 1
- Cursing the rain?
- Hood gets his appeal (maybe)
- County issues Swine Flu update
- Prometa update
- DMN - Plano Star Courier parent American Community Newspapers files for bankruptcy
- County settles with Auditor
- Early voting begins Monday, Apr. 27 for local elections
- MCG - Fire prompts jail evacuation
- Updates on auditor suit and Local Option Transportation Bills
- Laubenberg sleeps in
- DMN - Bridge plan disrupts calm of Lavon Lake
- Commissioners court moves to new building
- Another Central HOV wreck
- Ralph Hall earmarks Fusion Center
- DMN - Facing slow growth, Dallas exurbs stuck with unused services
- Bringing home the bacon (or is it just pork?)
- DMN - Plano ISD candidate files complaint against district officials
- What's wrong with the North Texas Fusion Center?
- Homer B. Reynolds III (1961-2009)
- Fusion Center kills controversial newsletter
- Talking trash
- DMN - Critics say Collin County not being a team player
- TO - Dr. Bob's Terror Shop
- WFAA - Prankster links sites in judge's name to gay website
- Trooping to Austin on your nickel
- How not to enter the HOV lane
- Ward testifies in Austin hearing on Parkland merger bill
- DMN- Collin County commissioners divided on bill that provides funds to extend rail service
- MCG - Helen Starnes (1925-2009), former Collin County Clerk
- TO - Keystone Kounter-Terrorism
- TxDOT responds to Central Exprwy HOV criticism
- DMN - NFL player pulled over outside hospital while rushing to be with dying relative
- CCB - Collin County not immune to unemployment woes
- Y, why?
- DMN - Editorial: Collin County should act regionally
- Wired - Diebold Admits Systemic Audit Log Failure; State Vows Inquiry
- NTD - Editorial: Tollway unnecessary in Denton County
- The Keith Self side show
- The judge digs it
- Jerry Hoagland to seek 8th term
- MCG - Foreclosures continue to climb, reach new records
- May 12, 2009 Homestead constitutional Amendment hoax
- Self vs. Hoagland, Carona, Watson and the Texas Senate, etc.
- Bridge plan draws opposition web site
- DMN - Some on tollway board criticize Sam Rayburn name change
- DMN - Wallace B. Jefferson: Why not elect judges on merit, not whim?
- FL - Reining in HOAs
- Lobbying with our tax dollars
- Commissioners refuse Fusion Center grant that would benefit ADB
- Self: "It's not going to be for sissies"
- Don't taser me, bro!
- Collin County Auditor - the media catches on, Madden doesn't
- Candidates for May 9 local elections
- Fusion Center vendor accused of nepotism and unfair competition
- Stimulating wheeling & dealing
- Committee to discuss Madden's auditor bill
- MCG - Bonnie Wenk Park
- McCall authors book on Texas Governors
- Judge Henderson will not seek re-election
- An eleven million dollar Odyssey
- DMN - Downtown Frisco residents wonder where city stands on revitalization
- Collin badly understimulated
- PSC - Commissioners engage in heated debate
- CCB - COURT FILING suggests, CoServ ZAPPED $54 million intended for members
- ACLU - Fusion Center Encourages Improper Investigations Of Lobbying Groups And Anti-War Activists
- Fusion: Fear, Fiction, Fact and Freedom
- DMN - DART to receive $62 million in federal stimulus funds
- Collin loses on TxDOT stimulus funding
- Outer Loop Update, Feb. 2009
- Auditor told to grovel - still gets nothing.
- County Judge declares burn ban
- Self campaigns against mobility local options bills
- DMN - Editorial: HOV headaches on Central
- Guest Opinion - Family Focus
- Frisco: First town hall meeting to be held Monday, Feb. 23
- Why redistrict now?
- Did you pay your tolls?
- DMN - Despite problems, HOV use is up on North Central Expressway
- Justice of the Peace Profit?
- Commissioners want to redistrict (darkly)
- Guest Opinion - Collin County Days
- WFAA - Frisco requests armored car from stimulus check
- The 81st Legislature - Collin County winners and loosers
- Lincoln's 200th birthday
- Chuck Bloom - The state of things to come
- AG reaches settlement with Plano based Countrywide
- CCB - Collin County unemployment rates see increase
- Name that Toll Road!
- Cities queuing at the trough
- RTC Public Meeting on Monday night
- WFAA - Questions surround Melissa water tower
- DMN - McKinney trees win reprieve
- CBS 11 - Study: Changes To US-75 HOV Lanes Dangerous
- DMN - Denton County transit agency's rail service coming around the bend
- Collin County Daze
- Sandoval wants a job
- He's baaaack! (not)
- The Collin County Toll Road Authority
- Charles Dean Hood gets another 60 days to live
- DMN - Collin County to stop paying for employees' weight-loss surgeries
- TAC objects - a clarification
- DMN - Plano school district to cut staff due to multimillion dollar budget deficit
- Madden files bill to limit Auditor
- Self and Hoagland respond to Open Meetings warning
- County schedules an(other) illegal secret meeting
- Auditing - Collin County style
- McCall tapped to head Calendars Committee
- DMN - Perry supports North Texas rail plan
- DO - For Whom the Toll Bells
- Set an example first
- Politicizing capital trials
- DMN - Collin County may cancel lap band surgery insurance
- Ussery wins McKinney Dist. 3 seat
- Collin County DA John Roach Receives 2008 Lone Star Prosecutor Award
- 10 Things I'd love to see in 2009, but probably won't
- I'll be back with new articles this weekend
- Population inflation and ghost towns
- What will Craddick's fall mean to local reps.?
- DMN - Plano City Council OKs $1.1M for DART complex
- DMN - Voting starts today for McKinney City Council seat
- DMN - Former Commissioner Phyllis Cole has left her mark on Collin County
- NTTA responds to "Holy fugitive, Batman"
- DMN - Editorial: Death penalty moratorium needed
- County pays ADB over $1.1 million in no-bid Fusion Center contracts
- 2008 in review: Why I write the Collin County Observer
- Holy fugitive, Batman!
- Income growth in Collin County
- All in the family - judging, Collin County style
- New & re-elected county officials to be sworn into office in January
- DMN - Development slow to follow Dallas transit rail at Plano's Parker Road station
- WTOP - Lawmakers profit from company with state contracts
- Medicare rates Collin County nursing homes - most fail
- County employees can be political fallout
- $2.6 Billion from SH 121 locked up by Attorney General
- Revisiting the Cantrell tragedy - Murphy 911 and emergency response times
- DMN - Editorial: Picking up support for transit
- Guest opinion - Parental Rights and Divorce
- Hittin' the road in McKinney
- Transportation news roundup
- ICCB - Wylie receives $400,000 Founders Park grant
- KRLD - Collin County Foreclosures Growing
- Commissioners to consider "no bid" contract for Fusion Center
- Shaheen declines raise
- Vacation
- NBC - SH 121 in nation's top 10 worst holiday traffic
- FE - Simpson named executive director of Arts project
- DMN - Plano already looking at potential cuts to 2010 budget
- Report: Wylie - home to one of nation's most dangerous chemical sites
- DMN - Plano's Heritage Farmstead Museum board says director took $150,000 before he died
- DMN - Editorial: Region's transit plan
- Homeless in Collin County, Part 3
- PSC - ACC provides progress report
- ACC to hold reception and update tonight
- DMN - Judge-prosecutor affair admission may have come too late in Charles Dean Hood death row case
- Who gains from the county's suit against its auditor?
- Murphy City Manager's report on toddler death clears officer's actions
- Cover up in Murphy? Is city telling the real story of toddlers death?
- Homeless in Collin County, Part 2
- New courts? High costs and dueling statistics.
- MCG - McKinney councilman resigns
- Final Melissa election contest decided
- Great job opportunity! - (body armour not included)
- The Shadow Government
- FWST - Woman who killed daughter by cutting off her arms to be released from state mental hospital
- Turf battle costs taxpayers over $300,000
- Homeless in Collin County?
- DMN - Judges, commissioners debate need for more courts in Collin County
- Voter turnout fizzles
- Precinct 4 mailers target opponents' base
- DMN - Wylie woman's death remains a mystery 3 years after husband confessed
- Who is voting in Collin County? Part 2
- Reports detail Collin County Early Voting problems
- DMN - NTMWD to get cheap Ok water?
- Early voting continues at record rate!
- Debunking the "Limbaugh" effect
- Videos of debate between Joe Jaynes & Victor Manuel
- FY 2008 a banner year for DART ridership
- DMN - District 4 congressman faces same challenger, plus new opponent
- Who is voting in Collin county?
- DMN - District 3 House challenger hopes to ride national upheaval to office
- TEA ends investigation of Lovejoy Superintendent
- DMN - Down-ballot Democrats hopeful in Collin County commissioners' races
- Early voting turnout sets new records!
- FE - Frisco council sends unused social services fund back to Housing Trust Fund Board
- October is Breast Cancer awareness month
- Early voting begins today
- 2008 General Election - Contested races in Collin County
- MCG - Should more courts be in Collin County’s future?
- This week
- DMN - Toll road agency poised to borrow $100 million from Bank of America
- Collin GOP targets Jean Power
- DMN - Citing frozen credit market, NTTA likely to delay completion of long-term financing for State Highway 121
- 2008 Early Voting Calendar & Locations
- DMN - Collin County GOP facing challenges from within
- County voter rolls increase by almost 6%
- DMN - TxDOT buys time with borrowed funds for Dallas-area projects
- Monday is the last day to register to vote
- MCG -Collin County Area Regional Transit will begin charging riders
- Frisco Town Hall meeting on Monday, Oct. 6
- DMN - Transportation officials lobby Collin County cities to support commuter rail expansion
- Tuesdays at the Coliseum - Round 3?
- Commissioners Court candidate forum
- Man Featured On Murphy's To Catch A Predator Back In Jail
- November Election Information
- Voter Protection Seminar - October 11
- MCG - Determining the right to an attorney
- Wylie community forum on tax increase & bonds tonight
- November ballot propositions
- CCO topic updates
- Plano based Liberty Legal Institute defends Palin
- DMN - Former Collin judge, prosecutor's intimacy may affect several cases
- CCARPAC endorses Jaynes - splits on Precinct 4
- NTTA awards $220 million contract for 121/75 interchange
- DMN - Transportation officials lobby Collin County cities to support commuter rail expansion
- AAS - Hood seeks retrial
- DART ridership , HOV use up
- DMN - Judge overturns Plano zoning decision that blocked church
- Tuesdays at the Coliseum - Round 3 coming up?
- DMN - $1.9 million deficit blindsides Royse City
- AG questions 1/3 of Collin death sentences
- Wylie City Councilman & teacher has fake diploma
- Collin County needs to review capital cases
- DMN - HP to outsource Plano to India
- Lovejoy ISD: Tales from the dark side
- Crossing the line: Sex and justice, Collin County style
- Atlantic - Travesty in Texas
- Attorney General files for possible stay in Hood case
- Grits -Former judges and prosecutors: Investigate official misconduct before executing Charles Dean Hood
- What if they gave a public hearing and nobody came?
- The cost of intolerance
- DMN - McKinney considers options for new city hall
- DMN - Census data ranks Plano as wealthiest large city in U.S.
- Collin County justice
- Red alert! Breathing can be harmful to your health.
- TL - Death Row Inmate Wants Rule 202 Depos of Former Judge, Former DA
- MCG - RTC votes to spend $1.5 billion for eight Collin County road projects
- When's the next meeting?
- Central HOV jumper causes fatality
- Electronic voting under fire - errors admitted, machines trashed
- Interrupting God in Wylie
- Car 54: Turn on the sprinklers!
- DMN - Texas death row inmate's defense hopes to prove romantic link between Collin County ex-prosecutor, retired judge
- Parade in Honor of Nastia Liukin
- US-75 HOV: What's next?
- DMN - Frisco man says HOA won't let him park pickup on driveway
- WFAA - Public hearings set for SH 121 toll road
- Notice of Tax Increase
- DMN - Dallas-Fort Worth foreclosure postings rise 7%
- DMN - DART considers charging riders to park in its lots
- Expensive turf war with taxpayer dollars grinds on
- We don't need no stinkin' EEOP
- 2009 Budget: Proposed Department head salaries
- 2009 Budget: Proposed Elected Official's Salaries
- MCG - Officials meet today in court over county's suit against its auditor, Don Cozad
- Laubenberg throttles regional health care committee
- DMN Editorial: Laubenberg's new assignment
- Is McKinney's red light camera a rear-end bust?
- NBC5 - Plans For Commercial Airlines In Collin Co. Grounded
- Cities hold citizen meetings
- County puts check register online
- Democrats nominate Power for County Commissioner
- Hearing on "raid" of attorney office rescheduled
- DMN - McKinney to spend $75K for Golf Tourney
- NBC5 - State Fines Atmos Energy In Fatal Blast
- MNN - Public Invited To Watch Board/Commission Selection Process
- DMN - Plano church keeps faith in fight to use building
- Budget games & Austin receptions -2009 edition
- MCG - Commissioners comb through proposed 2008-2009 county budget
- Where are the boots?: Details from the Gore warrant, affidavit and return
- Democrat Jean Power files for Precinct 4 Commissioner
- Days of trial
- Wylie: Community asked to participate in soldier send-off
- PN Bio: Frisco Mayor Maher Maso
- MCG - AG opposes subpoenas of Rusch and Dry
- Citizens panel offers Commissioners a 3.5% raise
- MCG - LULAC members voice displeasure
- MCG - City, Pegasus talk passenger service at Collin County Regional Airport
- Bilingual policy on court agenda
- Not Judge Rusch's first controversial warrant
- There they go again! It's time for commissioners to give themselves a raise
- DMN - Fred Moses becomes Collin County's first black countywide officeholder
- NBC5 - Detectives Seize Documents From Murder-For-Hire Suspect's Attorney
- KRLD - Judge issues search warrant on defense attorney files
- Hispanic Chamber opposes cutting bilingual pay
- DMN Editorial - Frisco must offer alternatives to autos
- Paying for public safety
- DMN - Charity clinics cropping up to serve Dallas-area immigrant workers
- RTC to hold public transportation meeting in Allen
- DMN - Police: Former Collin County deputy constable may have helped Mexican drug cartel
- DMN - Frisco looks at options to revive public transit
- Elected Officials Salary Comparison
- When are we going to have to hire A-rabs... and Indians?
- Ron Harris wants to be Picken's guy in TX Senate
- DMN - Plano to cut 50 positions including police and fire
- Self appoints Kathy Ward as Precinct 4 Commissioner
- Financial transparency
- Commissioners cancel meeting due to lack of their own attendance
- County hit with rising energy costs
- PN - Plano and Collin County in midst of series of ugly scandals
- CPS board president responds
- DMN Editorial: Clean-air plan falls short
- County Boards should not meet in homes
- The Lee Resolution
- DFW Air plan gets EPA "conditional" approval
- Notable Lists
- MCG - Council opens board, commission appointments to public meeting
- DMN - Editorial: Ethics questions in Charles Dean Hood case
- Jack Hatchell: 1937-2008
- MCG Editorial - Chamber PAC: Invoice change, more separation needed
- DMN - Editorial: Collin County wrong to run off gay worker
- SAP/Siemens suit - County wins million dollar settlement
- FE - Frisco Family Services Center adjusts services to meet changing needs
- NCTCOG releases 2008 Collin population estimates
- FWST - Texas man's family settles in lawsuit over NBC's 'Predator'
- DMN - Editorial: Headway for Collin County rail
- Gay bashing - shame in Collin County
- Court approves Health care training, but not from patient funds
- Attorney General files suit against Celina resident and former candidate
- MCG - Organizations confused about PAC donations
- DMN - Months after controversy, gay Collin County teen court coordinator to leave job
- MCG - Commissioners approve a 5 percent homestead exemption
- MCG - Collin County appraisals net 33,000 protests
- Last chance for 2009 home owner tax cut
- DMN - Collin County DA offering leniency for minor offenses
- PSC - ASNT looks to help more of Collin County
- Taking from the poor, again!
- Political Ads
- DMN - DART rail ridership on the rise
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- McKinney lobbyist is bad policy move
- MNN - Jaynes To Testify Before Senate
- DMN - Execution delayed for Texas death row inmate convicted for Plano murders
- Victor Manuel: response to "Providing for rail"
- DMN - Collin County arts hall, already facing shortfall, now needs new director
- DMN - Joe Jaynes: Providing for rail
- Local run-off election results
- DMN - Collin County arts hall project faces shortfall, uncertain future
- DMN - Affair rumors may delay execution of Plano couple's killer
- DMN - Paying for rail: RTC proposals
- Self and Hoagland kill tax cut for homeowners
- Correction - Gay bashing: the final act - Collin County style
- DO - Hardballs
- Gay bashing: the final act - Collin County style
- Auditor alleges county Open Meetings violations
- MNN - Huff, Tucker-David Give It One Last Shot Before Saturday
- Early voting ends - election day is Saturday
- MCG - Council candidates raise combined total of $21,798
- Auditor asks for an attorney
- MCG - RTC subcommittee considers tax increases to fund regional rail system
- Murphy To hold Comprehensive Plan public hearing Monday
- Frisco: First Coffee with the Mayor is Monday morning
- Dealer's suicide raises questions
- Collin Commissioners - Paid $100,000 a year to count business cards
- After a slow start, early voting stays slow in local races
- DMN - Task force to serve as watchdog for Texas criminal justice system
- MCG - New Sunset report calls for end to TTC
- Convicted Chief Deputy Tax Clerk "retires"
- MCG - Planned Parenthood premieres with prayer protest
- Collin Democrats head to Austin convention
- Early voting begins - light turnout expected
- Plano City Council Hosts District 3 Neighborhood Roundtable
- DMN - Wylie school board will discuss asking voters to OK higher taxes
- MCG - Planned Parenthood ‘Express’ Open House
- FE - Frisco Place 5 candidates square off in Chamber forum
- Murphy fires Chief Myrick
- Who authorized the suit against the Auditor?
- AP - Last known WWI veteran honored for Memorial Day
- DMN - Editorial: Push rail transit now
- Memorial Day 2008
- MCG - County seeks declaratory judgment against auditor
- Roach calls for court to void Blair's death sentence
- DMN - Editorial: Still looking for massive vote fraud
- Voting - The cost of low voter turnout
- DMN - Unfinished Plano children's shelter being torn down after storm damage
- County cuts indigent clinic grants by 26%
- DMN - Plano ISD expects to raise tax rate, run a deficit
- Commissioners rescind 2005 court order
- MCG - Collin CAD office receives 1,800 property value protests
- MNN - Zero Health Insurance In Collin County
- I protest yet another secret meeting
- Commissioners Court back on the road - in Murphy Tuesday night.
- Seven Collin County High Schools make Newsweek's top list
- The great McKinney busing irony
- FWST - Air pollution expected to hit unhealthy levels in DFW
- DMN - Texas attorney general's two-year effort fails to unravel large-scale voter-fraud schemes
- DV - Gay Plano candidate doesn’t blame controversy for defeat
- Self & Hoagland oppose county homestead exemption.
- How to bash a Gay (religiously)
- NBC5-Collin County To Launch DWI Blood Testing
- Your taxes are on the agenda (again)!
- Is the pump honest?
- A letter from David Hall
- FWST - Leaders come to defense of DFW transportation chief
- Local City & ISD election results
- ELECTION DAY!
- Plano Star Courier publishes wrong voter information
- DMN - Florence Shapiro weighs run for U.S. Senate
- DMN - In Plano, many register to vote, but few actually do
- Prejudice and discrimination are still with us.
- ICCB - Cities unite to expedite rail service on Cotton Belt
- While Plano was watching TV, what was the Fusion Center doing?
- DMN - Allen parents file discrimination claims in cheerleader tryouts
- MCG - AG Office rules in Jaynes’ favor
- PSC Editorial - In for a penny, in for a pound
- Commissioners salary proposal on Tuesday's agenda (again)
- There is NO constitutional amendment on the ballot
- Is county hiring biased?
- Who's watching the store? (And the disk drives?)
- DMN - Water treatment plant may bring steep rate increases
- County budget director bids Collin "adios"
- DMN - Is Plano a steroid capital in the US?
- DMN - Frisco population tops 100,000
- MCG - County’s chief deputy tax clerk faced theft charge in previous job
- City and school elections. Voting begins Monday.
- Perry urges a fight for toll roads.
- The wilds of Plano
- DMN - Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson: Tolls are here to stay
- DMN - Dewhurst doesn't rule out giving locals right to bust sales tax cap for transit, transportation
- Perry spokesman - "No roads, slow roads, or toll roads"
- WFAA Video - Early warning system in Collin County not helpful for some
- DMN - Steve Matthews: Financing Collin County's arts hall
- DMN - Bill Baumbach of Wylie: Commissioners deserve a pay cut
- CodeRED: better late than never - or is it?
- AAS - Health care plan for low-income adults won't start this year after all
- DMN - Gay rights advocates push Collin County commissioners to adopt hiring policy that bans discrimination
- DMN - Editorial: Rail plan requires firm proposals
- MCG - County to vote on Equal Employment Opportunity Plan today
- MN - Arts Of Collin County, Voters Could See This On Ballot Once Again
- DMN - Proposed parking ban may drive man out of Plano library lot
- Commissioners Salaries - yet another scheme
- Tax cuts vs. Homestead exemptions
- Equal Opportunity? (or not)
- DMN - Editorial: Perry should bypass pro-pollution lawsuit
- MN - Poverty In The Wealthiest County In Texas
- PN -McKinney new home market down
- DMN - Officials struggle over how to fund suburban rail network
- DMN - Income gap growing in Texas, groups say
- Shaheen bests Cole in low turnout runoff
- DMN - Privatization leaves Plano kids without medical coverage
- PSC - Mayors believe strongly in arts project
- Tuesday is Election Day
- Collin County dropout rates too high?
- DMN Editorial questions Hoagland's performance
- DMN - Rivals for Collin County Commissioners Court style selves as fiscal conservatives
- DMN - Editorial: Arts Hall Alternatives
- Collin Dems convention chooses Barack Obama
- Morning News endorses Phyllis Cole
- County "not required to divulge"
- DMN - Collin County officials won't review gay Plano council candidate's job status
- DMN- Collin County Democrats' convention violated Texas law
- DMN- Collin County Judge Keith Self upholds his discord with runoff pick
- PN .com- Attack e-mail implies gay Plano City Council candidate is child molester
- 2008 Primary -What's next (A guide to Collin County run-offs and conventions)
- MCG - Collin County Democrats could be in swing position
- Gay bashing - Collin County style
- DMN - Editorial New North Texas rail concept has promise
- Collin County 2008 Primary
- FWST - Texas 121 bonds selling slowly for toll authority
- DMN - Collin County opens its first transitional housing
- New EPA ozone rules to impact Collin County
- Collin CHIP enrollment soars as low income kids seek healthcare benefits
- KDFW-TV - State Dems Quit Trying To Count Caucus Results
- DMN - Earthen dams in Dallas area, across Texas need costly repairs
- DMN Editorial - Paying for N. Texas rail transit
- DRC Editorial: The DCTA gets its train moving
- DMN - Cities weighing rail service on BNSF line
- Prometa Judge defeated at polls
- Judge Self's head banging
- Election results: Collin County local key races
- AP - Young Latino Voters on the Rise
- Tuesday is Primary Election Day!
- Nepotism and salary creep
- DMN Editorial: Blue vote in Collin County?
- Final Early Voting Turnout
- DMN - Senate District 30 candidates argue incumbent's effectiveness
- Last day for early voting today!
- Carona: We will Love our new tollroads!
- DMN - Jon Cole under fire for mailers
- Day 9 early voting: Democratic turnout still surging
- Grants made simple
- MCG - NTMWD plans water capacity projects
- Corbett Howard's campaign responds
- Frisco Town Hall meeting tonight
- 6 day Early Voting Totals
- Is it a job or a plum?
- After 3 days, Collin Dems still outpolling GOP
- DMN - Editorial: Jaynes not sullied by complaint
- Self on target with campaign donation issue
- MCG - McKinney paper endorses Jaynes
- Corbett Howard is a "Big Fat Idiot!"
- George Washington's Birthday
- Early Voting turnout sets new Dem record
- NYT - Slowdown Hits Towns at Outskirts of Texas Boom
- MCG- Turnout very high in early voting
- Judge's ties to Prometa questioned
- 380th District Court primary race is on
- Dallas Morning News endorses Phyllis Cole, Jaynes, Seei, Melancon, Daley, Johnson, Madden
- Early Voting begins Tuesday
- Self blames PeopleSoft for loss of grants
- YouTube campaigns
- McKinney paper takes Self to the woodshed
- CBS 11 - Report: County Officials Taking Trips On Your $
- Friday: Precinct 3 Commissioner's candidate forum
- The Gettysburg Address
- Morning News issues local endorsements
- League of Women Voters - "Meet the Candidates"
- Is COG a commie front? (or is Self a kook?)
- Frisco: buses/transit DOA
- Courtroom antics - a theater of the absurd
- Frisco Chamber invites Democrats.
- Are you sure you are registered to vote?
- DMN - Feuding escalates between Collin County candidates
- Frisco Chamber denies Democrats a voice in Forum
- Is NCTCOG about to shaft Collin County (again)?
- Madden, Legislative Committees to hold Immigration Hearings in Richardson
- Candidate questionaires online
- Blogger gets records from Wylie PD
- Dallas Morning News Editorial calls for Regional Hospital
- DMN - Collin County has cut spending on legal defense for the poor
- City of Plano - Urban wildlife epidemic?
- DMN - Intensity level raised in GOP commission race
- CR - Howard camp wants more information on Jaynes
- A Collin County Hero (heroine)
- A Tale of Two Counties
- County begins webcast of Commissioners Court meetings
- MCG - Foreclosures set a record in Collin
- DMN-Texas' Prometa program for treating meth addicts draws skeptics
- Young Conservatives of Texas call for end to anti-Madden push polling
- District 67 Race heats up (and not nicely)
- Politicians and drugs
- County holds Transportation workshop on Monday
- Bar poll slams Sandoval
- Contested primary races - Final
- Manuel petition short on signatures
- Local Races feature GOP Primary contests
- MCG Editorial - Secret Party: Collin GOP needs to post candidate list
- Are roads important to you?
- Outer Loop: County to seek legal action against property owners?
- Legislative Primary races
- Congressional races set
- Holiday Vacation
- Burbs gone wild!
- MCG - Christmas in the Park site subject of dispute
- 2008 Primary Update
- DMN - Groups criticize Collin County's patient data rule
- PSC - Matt Shaheen Announces for Collin County Commissioner, Precinct 1
- Collin blacks 7 times more likely to be imprisoned for drugs than whites.
- MCG - Rep. Johnson will seek his 10th term in Congress
- MCG - Ex-detective seeks constable seat
- Indigent health care is not about immigration
- WFAA - Collin County health grants linked to immigration status
- Collin Infant Mortality rates grow
- DMN - Collin County grants require some data on patients
- NTTA writes $3.197 billion check for SH 121
- DMN Opinion - The county seats
- WFAA-TV - Officials closing speed limit loophole
- The county courthouse shuffle - (and author's correction)
- MCG - State forfeits health foundation’s charter
- Commissioners agree: They work too hard!
- Commissioners revise rules for charitable grants
- DMN - Collin County workers' longevity pay cut back
- DMN - Jaynes will run for re-election
- Taking from the poor & giving it to......
- DMN - Collin County's mental health care merits public debate
- MCG - Collin bests state in child healthcare ?
- Hoagland's revenge - County seeks to trim employee's longevity pay
- McKinney Children's Clinic refuses $30,000 county grant
- $235,000 of Fat Chair/Skinny Chair idiocy
- CBS11 - NTTA Execs Skip Out On Pricey Conference On Your $
- MCG - State grants $5 million to airport
- Lexus Lanes, Part 2: the new Rules of the Road
- NTBHA - Community Town Hall Meeting Monday evening
- DMN-State threatens to cancel Highway 161 toll project
- Lexus Lanes - And you thought $3 gas was expensive?
- Collin County Forclosures up one third in 2007
- DMN - Collin County Democrats look to 2008 with optimism
- Red Light cameras - Safety or Profit
- Texas lawmakers thwart bid to strip tolling ban from bill
- Trouble in paradise? Self vs Collin County GOP
- McKinney Chamber offers Candidate School 101
- DMN - Texas voters favored school funds to property tax cut
- SH 121 agreements final on financing, tolls, and revenue sharing
- DMN EDITORIAL - Voice of Reason is Needed
- MCG - Samaritan Inn building apartments for residents
- Two voters approve water district
- County Bonds roll over opposition
- Other local election results
- DMN - Texas natural gas firms must replace old fittings
- Today is Election Day -VOTE! - You can make a difference
- Bloomberg - Pickens Water Plan Poised to Gain Bond, Condemnation Authority
- MCG - Mayors: Voters should approve bond package
- Vermont residents are healthiest, Texas ranks 37th
- Other states watching to see how Texas pays for roads
- DMN - Driver who ran light in fatal Plano crash is sentenced to jail
- Coupling removal proposed after investigation
- Pickens-backed Panhandle district likely to pass unanimously
- Election turnout 2%, but growing
- McKinney ISD responds to "dropout factory" charge
- DMN - Campaign would help insure 92,000 Texas children
- MCG - Voigtsberger set to challenge tax assessor-collector
- One Dropout Factory in Collin County
- ACC receives $476,000 Open Space Grant
- PSC - Collin College raises "out-of-district" tuition
- DMN - Workers facing higher '08 health costs
- Collin County home values fall in August
- Bond Election statistics
- McKinney paper endorses Bonds
- Low Voter turnout predicted
- Collin Democrats endorse Bonds
- Blogger claims Wylie PD "stonewalling" Open Records request
- DMN - Roads only part of bond plan's equation in Collin County
- Not again? Another North Texas road gets "For Sale" sign
- HD 67: Madden Sees A Challenge … From The Right?
- WFAA - Blasts Texas Railroad Commission/Atmos after Wylie explosion
- DMN Editorial - Inexcusable Inaction: State neglected to check natural gas pipe fittings
- Low turnout on first day of Early Voting
- Commissioners Court changes meeting times
- MCG - County to fix couple’s dam if they agree to drop lawsuit
- I endorse the County Bonds
- Frisco to hold public meeting on mass transit
- MCG - TxDOT signs NTTA’s 121 agreement
- Commissioner Joe Jaynes on Facilities Bonds
- Vote yes: Bond package needed to keep up with growth
- DMN - State absolves Atmos in Wylie gas blast that killed elderly couple
- DMN - We Recommend: Vote yes on Proposition 11 to require record votes
- DMN - Editorial: We Recommend: Yes on Bonds
- League of Women Voters urge support of Prop 11
- Frisco ends Late Night drinking - will let voters decide
- MCG - Sewer-test bill has opposition in county
- Early voting starts Monday - locations & times
- MCG - Billy Lanier to seek Precinct 1 county constable post
- DMN - Highway 121 project receives federal environmental clearance
- Mobility News from COG, oh boy!
- MCG - McKinney Council endorses County Bonds
- DMN - Collin DA Roach to Prosecute Rockwall DA
- Robin Hood
- They just don't get it!
- County's attorney responds to Open Meetings accusation
- Morning News endorses Bond Proposals
- We ain't all rich here in Lexus Land
- Where does the money go?
- DMN - Judge's blog calls Collin County bond plan 'pork'
- FE- Frisco Cares Children’s Clinic provides care for children without insurance
- MCG - Self, Jaynes discuss county bond proposals
- Commissioners want yet another illegal secret meeting
- Another county IT Project wastes taxpayer money
- DMN - Report: N. Texas district exceeded water pollution permit limits
- DMN - Counties compromise as Highway 121 funds split up
- DMN - Study: Medical care for children often falls short
- Commissioners Court budgets grants for clinics
- Commissioners increase Election worker pay
- MCG - Current Collin County employees will continue to get longevity pay
- DMN - Collin officials say it's too expensive to install wider courtroom chairs
- Today is deadline to register to vote
- MCG - Court split as bond election draws near
- DMN - Editorial: Immigration inaction is muddying waters of Parkland debate
- Coming soon - to a toll road near you
- School boards asking for property tax hikes
- 2007 Bond Information
- COLLIN COUNTY WILL RECEIVE $1 BILLION IN ROAD FUNDING WITH PASSAGE OF BOND ELECTION
- Election worker pay on court agenda
- Voter Guide for Constitutional Amendments
- PSC - Chamber for county bond
- DMN - Collin is top hospital debtor
- MCG - County investigator seeks Precinct 1 constable seat
- DMN - Snug seats top list of courthouse complaints
- 2007 Open Space Bonds
- MCG - Howard joins commissioner race
- Laubenberg: Citizen input not allowed
- DMN - TxDOT going broke
- Commissioner Joe Jaynes on Transportation Bonds
- DMN - Dialogue on health care for indigents will help reconcile differences in view
- I live in Collin County and all I have to show for it are these d*mn toll roads.
- DMN - Taxpayers foot Parkland AIDS bills for indigent nonresidents
- Quick - Dallas North Tollway to open new segment in Frisco
- PSC - Hoagland wants to revisit longevity pay
- DMN - Lisa Virgoe of Lucas: Can we afford it?
- 2008 Employees Compensation Plan
- DMN: Bill Baumbach - A healthy discussion
- DMN-Collin college district planning four-year system in McKinney
- November Constitutional Amendments
- In response to: The Bridges of Collin County
- 88% of Commissioners Court meetings include Secret Sessions
- Thursday: Commissioners workshop in Plano
- DMN-Ed Housewright: Rising property values create de facto tax hikes
- DMN-Steve Matthews: Arts of Collin County will forge ahead without McKinney
- MCG-Victor Manuel running for county commissioner
- DMN-Voters to decide on full slate of ballot items in Collin County
- Clean Air - Collin silent (and choking)
- NTTA - TxDOT to sign 121 deal in October
- AAS-Billionaire seeks tax-exempt district for private water project
- PSC-Foreclosures put stranglehold on mortgage market
- Wow - Minutes turn into Seconds!
- Commissioners Approve Tax Hike, Raise & Budget
- MCG-Self opposes court on bond proposals
- COG Proposal on SH 121 Shortchanges Collin County "Big Time"
- KRLD-Dividing Up Billions Of Dollars
- Minutes and performance measures
- Commissioners vote on budget Tuesday
- Murphy, Roach and NBC - Videos
- DMN-Collin DA fires back at 'Dateline' over sex sting
- Tuesday Night's Public Budget Hearing
- PSC-Legislators say TxDOT toll plan ‘ridiculous’
- DMN-Mesa gets Election on Freshwater Supply Scheme
- DMN-About Freshwater Supply Districts
- Regional Healthcare & HB 3154
- Final Budget Public Hearing on Tuesday
- Ron Harris fronts for Mesa scheme
- DMN- Pickens seeks Kaufman's help to harness Panhandle's water, power
- Posting minutes, it's not that hard to do!
- Collin County Taxes - How do we stack up?
- MCG-County commissioners reject Self’s proposal
- County tax cuts on the horizon?
- Law Enforcement issues dominate budget hearings
- MCG- Larry Jones to run for Precinct 3 commissioner
- 2008 Budget Public Hearings (repost)
- Lessons from the TYC
- The PrimaCare Experiment
- Corrected Public Notice on Tax Increase
- Campaign promises? Oh well!
- 2008 Proposed Collin County Budget
- The DA's new furniture
- DMN - much ado over DA's new furnishings
- MCG-Learning Curve: Judge Self must learn workings of county
- The Bridges of Collin County
- Anyone want to buy a white elephant?
- Keith Self vs. the Commissioners Court (and everyone else)
- MCG-Collin Commissioners call $328.9 million bond election
- 2007 Bond Proposal Documents are posted
- Transportation bonds - Self vs. Jaynes
- 2007 Bond Proposal - Are they trying to pull a fast one?
- Entities submit plans for share of NTTA $3.3B
- Parkland plays hardball
- Raise Season 2007
- Public Hearings
- DMN-Take politics out of commissioners court raises
- Denton County consultant says Collin to seek larger share of toll proceeds
- Pay Hikes: Commissioners make enough money
- Family Violence: Voters should decide whether to build center
- Collin cuts court costs, but at what price?
- Collin County Commissioners OK raises of 5% for elected officials
- For the third time in a year, I have written the Collin County Judge
- Frisco City manager will recommend resolution on SH121 tolling instead of lawsuit
- Commissioners Approve Health Care Grants to 12 Non-Profit Agencies
- Collin County Medically underserved?
- Welcome
- MCG-Commissioners to seek TxDOT financing
- DMN-Indigent Healthcare
- DMN-Clinics offer low-cost care for poor
- DMN Editorial - A Real Option for the Poor
- DMN-Officials' financial statements don't say much
- DMN-Outer Loop route gets a green light
- DMN-Indigent care receives healthy debate
- DMN-Collin: Judge's final State of the County address looks at achievements
- DMN - Collin County: But Democrats say they're gaining ground
- DMN-Democrat says he can beat Hoagland
- Dallas Morning News Endorses Baumbach
- Not one dime
- Ethics watch on Hoagland
- More Ethics Issues - Where's the report?
- County Budget approved
- Budget held hostage to Commissioners' raises
- Commissioners play shell game with their salaries.
- A CALL TO ACTION!
- A slap to the face of every taxpayer in Collin County!
- Commissioners flush a million taxpayer dollars!
- County employees are NOT political footballs
- Bread, Jerry?
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