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 Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale

HARTFORD — The University of Connecticut Foundation will pay about $4,500 to send Gov. Dannel Malloy to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, while the state owes the foundation $18 million in matching grants.
Since 2007, the state has pledged to match one quarter of all donations to the [...]

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spent her Christmas and New Years holidays in on the Big Island of Hawaii, county taxpayers picked up part of the bill.
Marshall Kanehailua, Assistant Chief with the Hawaii Police Department in Hilo, confirmed local police escorted Pelosi during her vacation at a cost [...]

By PHIL DRAKE
Montana Watchdog
HELENA – A state representative says he has written a letter to his legislative colleagues, asking them to support a proposal for Montana to break from federal regulations for aid to the needy and create its own list of acceptable foods that can be purchased by people receiving government help.
Rep. Tom Burnett, [...]

By Kevin Dietrich
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Stimulus funding, budget vetoes and spending transparency are among an array of state business South Carolina public officials discussed through private email correspondence during the past year.
But despite potential problems involved when government isn’t conducted in the open, South Carolina has no prohibition against using private emails for public business. [...]