California tackles the global menace of food scraps and leftovers
California kicked off the new year with a new law requiring residents to take more time to sort their trash, making sure organic matter doesn’t go to the landfill where…
Running Empty Buses to Avoid Layoffs
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Fairfax County, Virginia runs the state’s largest public school system. Students have begun the fall semester as they finished the spring: online. One…
Pentagon IG: Unresolved Problems are Costing Money, and Making it Harder to Save Lives
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The Pentagon’s inspector general has issued an annual review of unresolved issues at the department and found the backlog – and cost, in…
Illinois Wants U.S. Taxpayers to Bail Out State Pension System
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Illinois Senate President Don Harmon asked the state’s congressional delegation to secure at least $10 billion in federal funding to bail out the…
California Wants to Waste More Federal Money
Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, while decrying Trump’s comments as “cheap shots”, has also said he supports having the federal government “intercede”—at least financially—in…
Corruption in Big Government, High Tax California as Rail Official Investigated for Malefeasance
Article from FLN by FLN Staff. A top consultant involved in California’s ever-burgeoning high-speed rail boondoggle is now being investigated due to the efforts of Republican state Assemblyman Jim Patterson….
Federal Funding Pulled From Terrible Cali Rail Project
Article from Reason by Scott Shackford. Good news for every American who doesn’t live in California: If that state insists on pushing forward with its overbudget, behind-schedule boondoggle of a…
Government Pays Millions to Dead People
Article from The Daily Wire by Josh Hammer. The Office of the Inspector General (IG) at the Social Security Administration (SSA) has released a March 2019 internal audit that sought to determine…
Trump Wants Federal Money Back From Wasteful California
Article from The Los Angeles Times by Ralph Vartabedian. The Trump administration’s decision to cancel a $929-million grant to California’s troubled high-speed rail project and claw back $2.5 billion in funds already…
Obama is Still Costing Taxpayers Money
Article from The Daily Caller by Tim Pearce. A federal board tasked with investigating chemical accidents is “hemorrhaging” taxpayer money on a years-long personnel case that has not yet gone…
