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Topline: North Carolina's state website claims that about 30% of the revenue from lottery tickets helps fund public schools. Yet despite record-breaking sales, that has not been true in years, a ...

Topline: The company administering taxpayer-funded health insurance for New York State employees overpaid hospitals by $19.3 million, according to a new audit from the State Comptroller. Key facts: Ne ...

Topline: In fiscal year 2025, Congress funded 1,326 federal programs that had expired legal authorizations to receive taxpayer funding -- the most since at least 2019, when the Congressional Budg ...

Topline: Taxpayers are often suspicious that government insiders can rewrite the rules to benefit themselves. But in Connecticut, the problem is that the rules were not rewritten. Business consultant ...

Topline: Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander claims one of the city's health insurance funds has "no path to solvency" after labor unions used it to cover pay raises, Weight ...

Topline: The Grinch did not successfully steal Christmas this season, but he did use up $30,493 in taxpayer money. A viral Grinch-themed house in Dallas drew crowds so large that the city needed extra ...

RealClearInvestigations' Picks of the Week January 25 to January 31 Featured Investigation: About FACE: Trump Administration Using Abortion-Focused Law To Defend Believers A January 2025 prote ...

Topline: What do most people look for in a potential partner? Maybe kindness, or a sense of humor? What about $1.9 million in federal funding? Taxpayers were forced to choose the third option when the ...

Topline: "Three strikes and you're out" is an excellent rule for baseball, but apparently not for Medicaid. The Maine health-care company Gateway Community Services LLC was found to ...

In December, bestselling author and humorist David Sedaris wrote a New Yorker magazine essay about a recent trip to Portland, Oregon. While on a walk to a donut shop, he "lost count of the ...