Money for nothing: Top-heavy schools, foolish spending aggravate (video)
From war to walk signs to perceived swollen bureaucracies, area taxpayers have different perspectives on what they consider waste in government.
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Money for nothing: Top-heavy schools, foolish spending aggravate (video)
Senate OKs 5% spending cut, pension payment delay
Senate OKs 5% spending cut, pension payment delay
The Illinois Senate early today passed a $57 billion budget that would postpone a $3.7 billion pension payment until January, cut spending by 5 percent and give Gov. Quinn broad “emergency” budget powers. The Senate began debating the spending package late Thursday night and wound up passing the [...]
RI House committee approves midyear spending plan
RI House committee approves midyear spending plan
Rhode Island would withhold millions of dollars in aid to cities and towns and change pension benefits for retirees under a budget plan approved by a House committee Thursday night.
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Brook Park council approves 2010 spending plan
Brook Park council approves 2010 spending plan
City Council OK’d a spending plan for the year that could be almost flat when compared with spending last year.
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State blasts retirement board for secrecy, dubious spending
State blasts retirement board for secrecy, dubious spending
A state audit of the Essex Regional Retirement Board, released this week, reveals a board operating in a world of clandestine meetings, with members reimbursing themselves and employees for both legitimate and improper expenses, and doling out legal and consulting fees without so much as a contract and [...]