by Kate Piercy From today’s Chicago Tribune Editorial page: “Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has handed out raises — some of more than 20 percent — to his staff while proclaiming a message of ‘shared sacrifice’ and planning spending cuts of $1.4 billion because the state is awash in debt.” —The Associated Press, July 6, 2010. “Illinois ended...

by Heather Wilhelm When people say they’re going to “the Big House,” they usually mean a football stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan…or a jail. But prisoners across the country recently gave the latter interpretation of the phrase a whole new meaning, as discovered this week.  “Nearly 1,300 prison inmates wrongly received more than $9 million in...

The AP released information from a forthcoming audit of the Census Bureau detailing wasteful spending during the preparations for the 2010 census.

The AP released information from a forthcoming audit of the Census Bureau detailing wasteful spending during the preparations for the 2010 census.