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Topline: Maryland gave at least $319,000 in food stamps and other federally-funded benefits to prisoners, dead people, and a $2 million lottery winner. A July report from the state's Office of L ...

The Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies Act of 2023 requires federal buildings to use at least 60% of their office space. Only 21 of the DOT's 189 buildings meet that benchmar ...

Topline: New York City's bus depots and maintenance facilities are legally required to recycle their paper and cardboard, but it rarely happens. The Metropolitan Transit Authority's inspec ...

Topline: Bandit, Tater and Duck are the newest horses in Sheriff Chad Anderson's mounted patrol unit in Bates County, Missouri. Silver and the Lone Ranger they are not. The mounted patrol ...

Topline: Individual commemorative postage stamps have never sold more than 517 million copies each. But in 2009, using arithmetic befitting Ralph Wiggum, the U.S. Postal Service decided to print 1 bil ...

Topline: For almost a decade, the federal government's budget for Antarctic research included little money for actual scientific inquiry, and a boatload of cash for infrastructure and administra ...

The Air Force is spending $21 billion to upgrade the engines, communications systems, software, weapons and more on 76 of its B-52 bombers from the 1950s so they will be usable for several more decade ...

In May 2013, the Army National Guard spent $10 million on a recruitment campaign tie-in with the upcoming "Man of Steel" Superman film. The expense was ill-timed. Just one month later, Con ...

Topline: The City of Oakland spent $2 million in 2024 to issue citations for illegal trash dumping, but offenders rarely bothered to respond. Just $16,000 of fines were collected, the city auditor fou ...

Topline: A former New York City school superintendent was working for Brooklyn schools as a consultant as of this June, a year after his new employer in New Jersey sued him for alleged fraud and misma ...