Alleging waste and abuse of taxpayer monies, citizens asked elected members of the Tarrant Regional Water District this week for a forensic audit of the government agency’s finances. TRWD—and its creation, the Trinity River Vision Authority—have become infamous for...
As the March Republican primary approaches, President Donald Trump’s administration dropped a bombshell on Monday. Panther Island—the controversial pet project of U.S. Rep. Kay Granger (R–Fort Worth)—will not receive any federal funding this year. Instead, only $1.5...
On the campaign trail, a Republican congresswoman seeking hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds for a real-estate project run by her son is claiming a study justifying it was completed. The problem is that the representative knows the study never happened. For...
More than a quarter of a million in taxpayer funds was doled out last year to the unqualified son of a congresswoman to oversee a controversial public works project. The Panther Island redevelopment scheme remains stuck in its design phase after 13 years and $383...
While local bureaucrats and politicians wait for federal funding for Granger’s real estate redevelopment scheme in North Texas, the local water district can keep the project on long-term life support through taxpayer-backed bonds. Panther Island, a massive...
Last Wednesday, a billion-dollar redevelopment scheme overseen by the son of a congresswoman revealed that its design phase is not yet complete. This runs counter to findings published last year by a third-party review, which claimed that the design phase was finished...
This week, the board of a North Texas water district voted to saddle local taxpayers with more debt to keep afloat a nearly bankrupt redevelopment boondoggle run by the son of a congresswoman. Panther Island is a massive taxpayer-funded government project conceived in...
A bombshell dropped on Wednesday that a Fort Worth real estate redevelopment project—run by the son of a congresswoman—is running out of money and risks coming to a complete halt by the end of the year unless more funding is secured. Panther Island is a massive...
After 16 years of delays and cost overruns exploding to over $1.17 billion, a local government bureaucracy—in defiance of the Fort Worth City Council—is refusing to follow recommended reforms for the redevelopment scheme known as Panther Island. Panther Island, a...
Board members responsible for overseeing Fort Worth’s billion-dollar redevelopment project hired a federal bureaucrat to run the agency in place of a congresswoman’s son, J.D. Granger. Despite his replacement allegedly taking over executive responsibilities, Granger...
Okay, it’s really “Water District,” but it’s an organization established in 1924 as a Water Control and Improvement District to provide raw water and flood control. Now, 80 years later, it deals in buying and selling land (taking some by eminent...
Last Tuesday, the Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to endorse recommendations from a third party to reform a 16-year-long, over $1.1 billion taxpayer-funded redevelopment scheme. However, the two bureaucrats in charge have chosen to ignore two key aspects of...
After 16 years and over $383 million of their hard-earned dollars has been spent, unfinished bridges over dry ground are all that Fort Worth and Tarrant County taxpayers can see of the Panther Island project.Texas Scorecard recently visited the site where Panther...
Sources claim that roughly $600 million in federal funding will not be restored to a $1.168 billion redevelopment project in Fort Worth until the two bureaucrats responsible for its mismanagement are fired. Sources in Tarrant County have informed Texas Scorecard that...
A Texas congresswoman’s son will continue running a Fort Worth project that, after 16 years and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, still hasn’t completed any phase of construction. The troubled project will continue to be run by Jim Oliver, general manager of...
A congresswoman’s son is facing public scrutiny for his mismanagement of a troubled flood control and real estate redevelopment project—and now his recently obtained resume shows he lacked any relevant education or work experience prior to overseeing the $1.168...
A programmatic review found that the son of a congresswoman, who is also the administrator of Fort Worth’s regional water district, kept the Trinity River Vision Authority board in the dark about the controversial Panther Island project. According to the TRVA,...
A programmatic review from advisory firm Riveron revealed the troubled government agency run by the son of a congresswoman spends $2 million annually in taxpayer money to operate, with roughly 10 percent spent on public relations. Panther Island, conceived in 2003, is...
A programmatic review shows Panther Island, the real estate development boondoggle headed by the son of a congresswoman, has cost taxpayers over $383 million—with only its design phase finished. Panther Island, conceived in 2003, seeks to reroute the Trinity River via...
UPDATED July 12, 2019. Previews of a report on downtown Fort Worth’s Panther Island Project reveal “insufficient oversight and transparency” among many problems within the beleaguered billion-dollar development. The report, withheld from the public at the behest of...
