Pelosi’s Hawaiian vacation costs Hawaii taxpayers $27,000
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 [...]
Montana lawmaker disputes hunger in USA claims; seeks changes to system
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, [...]
Private Email and Public Business: Anything Goes in S.C. (1 of 3)
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. [...]
State of the states? Broke and going broker
By Frank Keegan, Editor of Watchdog.org
Taxpayers, prepare to be extorted and robbed.
If the first two state-of-the-state speeches Wednesday are any indication, we are in for it.
Fiscal mismanagement leaders California and New York opened the hunting season on taxpayers.
Forty three other state legislatures convene soon to deal with the fiscal carnage they wrought through political profligacy [...]
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