Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Billions in Future Government Spending on the Line
Minneapolis, MN–It could just be one of the biggest cases most Minnesotans have never heard about. On March 1st, 2010 the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments in a lawsuit that could determine the process by which state and local government spend billions of tax [...]

News analysis
Count on it, fellow citizens. Your state leaders right now are conjuring every trick they can to inflict tax increases on us when their legislatures soon convene to cobble together 2011 budgets.
Just remember, our leaders don’t have a revenue problem, they have a catastrophic spending problem.
The biggest deception they will use is [...]

America’s least populous states lead the way in pork, according to a report compiled by Fox News and the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii:

When it comes to bringing home the bacon, America’s last frontier has long been first in line for government handouts, as sparsely populated Alaska continues to draw in hundreds of millions in pork-barrel [...]

A small town is missing some big money and a top state official is pushing for answers.
Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley says at least $31,000 is missing from the Johnson County Sheriff’s office in Tecumseh, Nebraska. According to an audit released today the money, most of it cash, was under the direct control of Sheriff James [...]

Access to data is only part of the battle to maintain citizen oversight of government spending. Kansas agencies and departments classified $254.3 million in 2009 vendor payments as “confidential by law or legal authority.”
The Department of Transportation topped the list for state agencies with $49.8 million in confidential vendor payments. DOT spent $1.5 billion in [...]