By Jim Dooley | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – The state spends nearly $1 million annually to publish legal notices in Honolulu’s only newspaper and lawmakers are looking for ways to trim that bill.

Two measures that would allow electronic publication of some or all legal  notices on internet websites were discussed in a joint meting of three Senate [...]

By Kyle A. Jackson | Michigan Capitol Confidential

GRAND RAPIDS — Portage Public Schools had an odd reaction to some good financial news this week, telling a company that could save it $270,000 a year “no thanks.” That offer came from Grand Rapids Building Services, a facilities cleaning contractor that proposed taking over the school district’s first shift [...]

By Christopher Butler | Tennessee Watchdog

NASHVILLE – Officials in Tennessee wasted or misused almost $12.5 million in taxpayer money during the month of January, according to audits that the State Comptroller’s Office released last month.
Among the problems that the Comptroller cited were government officials paying excessive overdraft fees for insufficient bank account funds, unnecessary [...]

By Jim Dooley | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – State departments want to expand the budget by  some $334.7 million, Budget and Finance Director Kalbert Young said in the first of a series of money briefings to lawmakers planned for this week and next.
Young said new general fund requests from Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s administration total nearly $120 [...]

By Mark Lisheron
Texas Watchdog
What was to have been a Frankenstein-like lightning strike to the economy and to unemployment, the Weatherization Assistance Program today in Texas has spent more than $226,000 on each of 1,041 jobs the program is said to have created or saved.
The director of the state Department of Housing and Community Affairs overseeing [...]