Houston city website hosted multiple posts on mail-order Russian brides, casino games
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The page on Wednesday morning featured a spate of blog entries on a variety of confounding topics that were decidedly unrelated to City Hall.
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The entries appeared on the city's news site, cityofhouston.
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"The blog site is hosted on a third-party platform and is not connected to any City of Houston enterprise systems.
"We were recently made aware of improper posts appearing on a blog site utilized by the city to allow individual departments to post departmental content," Mitchell said in a statement.
The source of the blog entries, many of which were nonsensical, was unknown Wednesday.
The listed author on the articles, a housing department employee named Ashley Lawson, did not actually write and post them, Benton said.
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