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  • Mike Morgan

    I just wanted to comment that I love the new look/layout of your website. Very nice.

    Mike

  • http://watchdog.org Admin

    Thanks, Mike!

  • Scott Merker

    for Ben DeGrow on his JeffCo bond issue piece:

    Nice piece. May be room for a followup covering potential corruption angle.

    http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20603705/colorado-bond-companies-role-school-campaigns-raises-questions?source=rss

    Adams has had more recent corruption headlines but JeffCo had plenty of its own issues (I’m sure still does) and the bond guys will go wherever they small money.

    Scott

  • Lynn Harris

    I really need someone to call me ASAP! I have information about not only government waste but waste that could have contributed to the death of a long time friend of mine! Now I am receiving death threats with little to no help from local police! I am a disabled woman who lives alone and I am in fear of my life!!! I just left a voice mail on your machine where you will find my phone number. PLEASE call me ASAP! Does anyone out there know of a good lawyer?

  • adam

    Illinois prisons are donating a large percent of the produce that they grow in the prisons. Yet the inmates are not receiving any of this produce. They are feeding barely feeding these men.

  • Monte Bowers

    Recently watched one man get charged while the drinking buddy of the DNR officer did not even get a warning. Glad to supply details to anyone interested, I called Columbia Office and get stonewalled. Monte Bowers 803-944-5527 Newberry County Region 3

  • AC

    When are Americans going to be paid back for “black boxed” recalled medications. Not to speak of damages.

  • delciacrockett

    I just saw this video while researching police breaking the law. http://policethugs.com/video-multiple-lmpd-officers-being-investigated-for-recent-incidents/ They not only allowed a bad neighbor to stalk and harass me, but they told me not to call them, and said she could break the law – for me not to call, that was not what they were there for. I have no criminal record and they almost put me in handcuffs and took me out of my own home, after I put a note on her windshield and asked her to leave me alone and explained why, after my spending 10 years of trying to be a good neighbor and friend to her, and all she did was hurt me and others in word and deed. I did not resist arrest. The officer who arrived used intimidating and severe language and threat of my property and wages being taken from me, as well as my going to jail. Then, the police put me under surveillance for more than a year (still under it) and followed me every where I went. It affected my church worship, my job, my private home life, even my walk on the trail. I am a prisoner in my own home. And I am a person who has never smoked, drunk, been around drugs and am a devoted wife and mother. One of the officers is said to be “in love” with me, but it all stems from the bad neighbor and my just wanting my privacy and right to be left alone. Every word I say and every move I make in private is being made a matter of record, and for no other reason than just because they can. The neighbor can be heard, at any given point. I am sick of this. What can I do, but go public with a full investigation request. In Columbia, Missouri, I am doing everything I can to get a full investigation of the CPD. Is there any advice you can can give me? There are other cases of police abuse in this town, even an officer serving time for murder and an officer who went into a cell and injured someone in aggressive bullying and assault. He lost his job, but he should have been charged with assault, as he cost the city a small fortune in settlement money. He should have been made to make restitution of that money to the hard-working, honest taxpayers in this town. At present, three top candidates for deputy chief are all women, when a “nationwide search” is said to have taken place. Our town hired an outside chief who now seems to be practicting the inside favoritism that he was hired to clean up the town of crime. Crime has risen in Columbia. There are robberies and shootings on a regular basis, when just a little over 10 years ago, Columbia was named in a national magazine as in the top ten safest places in America to live. I do not feel safe. I, who thought the police were earth angels in uniform before this happened to me, am now among those who do not look at the police, their cars in passing and want nothing to do with them, in any way. They have taken away my feeling of safety. No wonder Columbia is losing its safe status in the country. It is hitting home on each street in which we live, day by day. Thank you for your time and help. I need answers, and the public deserves the right to know. Some things are worth believing it, and when that trust is gone, the feeling of safety is gone with it. Sincerely, Delcia Crockett

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004493079522 Will Cecil Bleuher

    State and Federal Officials are committing Recovery Act
    Fraud in order to cover up their historic EUC08 Program
    Implementation Errors:

    Petitioning The President of the United States and the Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration

    Department of Labor Implementation Errors in the EUC08 Program are Robbing the Unemployed out of Recovery Aid:

    http://www.change.org/petitions/department-of-labor-errors-are-robbing-the-unemployed-out-of-recovery-aid

  • http://www.facebook.com/NatureFreak123 Mandy Baker

    Is Americorp (the domesticated version of the Peace Corps) plagued with scandal? I know that hundreds of thousand$ are used inappropriately through the program (and then covered up by the government). But, I’m wondering if there is, also, something fishy going on with the education award (the form of payment to those who give their service). I worked 3400 hours under the program….and each time I tried to use my award…mistakes were made by either Americorp or the college (and Americorp didn’t care). I lost my entire award and ended up with the bills having to come out of my own pocket. The more I talk to other Americorp alumni….they say that they ran into the same issues.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1128202303 Virgil Starkey

    In one of the debates between Romney and Obama, Obama made the comment that he is responsible for the people in his administration does. He was talking about the Benghazi incident, but this also clarifies why he used executive privilege to block congress from pressing Holder futher. It also shows that he is very complicit in the operation and was either directly involved, or is a accomplice in covering up a criminal conspiracy.

  • Curious

    Dear Sir or Madame,

    I would like to obtain any information that anyone has already obtained in regards to the merger between International Biometric Group (IBG) and Arlington Capital Partners /Novetta Solutions.
    IBG handles many major government contracts and yet these companies have been prohibiting information regarding this merger. I am curious as to why that is.

    Can you please provide any information you have obtained regarding this merger and or direct me to an organization that may have already pulled a FOI on this merger.

    Thank you,

  • Concerned

    We need to have an investigation into District Attorneys and the overwhelming power they have and the lack of check and balances.

  • nooneimportant

    brundidge alabama city leaders corruption, conflict of interest with partial ownership of utility over the city, raises with no documentation, no pay scales and on the list goes….corruption beyond belief!

  • @taxpayerrespect

    Can Watchdog Wire recommend a good whistlebower attorney?

  • La Lydia

    Why is a Watchdog organization touting PIRG and quoting it in a watchdog article? Here is the article, and following it is a link to what PIRG is. Is Watchdog now flacking for the left? I doubt the writer even know what PIRG is, and what it stands for.

    http://watchdog.org/76788/kansas-receives-low-marks-for-fiscal-transparency/

    http://www.undueinfluence.com/uspirg.htm

  • paul

    Please pass this website on the web that has been spun
    New world order has been in motion for years, we are entering the final days. We must be disarmed. Then look out… SOROSisevil.
    commieblaster.com

  • paul

    New world order has been in motion for years, we are entering the final days. We must be disarmed. Then look out… SOROSisevil.
    commieblaster.com

    http://commieblaster.com/george-soros-fund/index.html

  • fed up

    Someone needs to check into the content being posted in some of these states. There is legislation in Oklahoma being fast tracked and oddly I see none of it posted on this site…from what I can tell other than NPR’s state impact Oklahoma this is the only other watchdog non profit here. We need some outside journalism attention on this state to call this good ole boy network out in the open once and for all.

  • http://ProgressiveOasis.com/ ProgressiveOasis

    There is another account that posts as ProgressiveOasis. Can you remove it? Mine is the real account as it links to my website and my account is also the one with a pic.

  • anonymousname99

    I work for the Government and my Department leader sent a message about our budget and furlough. Here is the quote: “Therefore, we must all continue to examine every expense to make sure we are supporting only essential operations.” I want to know why we don’t ALWAYS examine every expense to make sure we are supporting only essential operations.

  • http://touchstonesjests.blogspot.com/ TouchStone

    About the Montana page, I’ve got a question:
    IS THERE ANYBODY IN THERE?
    (as in: When are you folks going to post any new content?)

  • Nick

    Why is the VA spending money hand over fist for overtime while other essential government agencies are furloughed?

  • CARL

    THESE COPS IN NJ WITH THIS DISABILITY FRAUD IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL! THEY GO TO THE GYM AND WORK OUT! THEY RUN MARATHONS AND THE STATE GIVES THEM A DISABILITY PENSION TAX FREE!!! THIS STATE IS GOING TO CRAP!!!! RE-EVALUATE THEM AND PAY THEM LESS MONEY ! THIS IS SICK!!!!!