For more than a decade, The Watchdog has taught thousands of Texans how to shop for cheap electricity from reliable companies that don’t trick… Read More
I set a personal goal. Before the 2022 Juneteenth federal holiday honoring the effective end of slavery in the Confederate states, I’d learn w…
Is there a cover-up at the Denton Central Appraisal District?
Lots of consumer tidbits here. Let’s start with The Watchdog’s nomination for most deceptive local political TV commercial of 2022:
I feel like an idiot. I’m standing in my local convenience store with a crisp $100 bill. I can almost hear Ben Franklin asking, “Are you sure …
You’re depressed. Worried about the future. Suffering from high anxiety.
The Watchdog: Once again, Denton County homeowners are angry. Their appraisal district is in turmoil
Denton County residents are complaining to The Watchdog that they still don’t have their appraisal notices, which means they cannot yet file a…
To the good folks who’ve moved to Texas in the past year in record-breaking numbers from California, Florida, Louisiana and a whole bunch of o…
For someone trying to save you money, Glenn Goodrich has an appropriate last name.
What should you know about hiring a property tax consultant to protest your home appraisal on your behalf? How do you find a good consultant? …
My obsession with teaching Texas property owners how to protest your property taxes began in 2011 when my county appraisal district debuted on…
As if teachers and school administrators don’t have enough to worry about, some middle schools have their own versions of fight clubs.
Did you get your little “blue love note” in the mail yet?
It’s a beating when your state government fails its citizens. But that’s the situation now in three crucial state agencies undergoing difficul…
Facebook has launched Facebook Protect, an identity protection tool, to select account holders. Its goal is to protect VIPs from having their …
At first, it looked to Gayden White of Fairview, in an email to The Watchdog, like a waste of taxpayers’ money: Why would the Collin County el…
The town of Trophy Club got its strange name because it was supposed to display the trophies of golf legend Ben Hogan. But Hogan pulled out.
When The Watchdog last checked on the Internal Revenue Service six months ago, we found a government agency in disarray.
Isaac Flatto loves Willie Mays so much that a few months ago he bought at Heritage Auctions of Dallas a Mays baseball card for $93,000. “He’s …
I like 50 stars on the American flag, one for each state. I like that there are 100 senators, a nice round number representing two from each s…
After my story examining discount pharmacy cards, I heard from “the first free pharmacy serving the general public in Texas.” The nonprofit se…
