“This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping!”: U.S. government shenanigans, June 2018

Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for June 2018:

Tax Foundation: To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Property Taxes?

USA TODAY:  By 2021, these 8 states will have no income tax

ALABAMA: tax delinquency amnesty program begins July 1

Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote

Rail Commission apologizes, while former member continues to attack Alabama governor

Mobile Council Asks Alabama taxpayers for Amtrak Money

Alabama team showcases state for foreign investment 

ALASKA: What global warming? It’s June, but one Alaska community just got half a foot of snow

Walker signs oil credit payment bill amid lawsuit controversy

troopers search government offices for evidence of malfeasance

State Trooper’s mail among items recovered in arrest

trade war deals heavy blow to Alaska’s fishing industry

Alaska receives $56-million from federal taxpayers for salmon fishery disaster

State healthcare refuses to pay for sex-change

New law bans restaurant tip sharing with all employees

ARIZONA:  Attorney General’s mother’s name forged on state Senate campaign’s paperwork

Arizona can’t deny driver’s licenses to ‘dreamers’

More than 1,600 immigrant children in Arizona facilities

Ducey vows to keep troops at Arizona, Mexico border

Arizona agrees to ease some restrictions for people registering to vote

ARKANSAS:  Federal officials inspect Little Rock Air Force Base, for potential immigrant housing

Democrats ask governor to stop deploying Arkansas National Guard soldiers to Mexico border

lobbyist admits role in bribery of state lawmakers

State politician arrested failing to pay taxes

Arkansas senator gets 18 months in prison in fraud case

Consolidating state taxpayer funded data centers could cost $15-million USD

Arkansas court clears way for medical marijuana

$2.2 Million Medicaid Fraud Arrest

CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded DynCorp eliminating 118 jobs at Fort Irwin, by the end of July!

Gov’na Brown signs largest ever tax spending bill 

Gov’na Brown forces taxpayers to give the movie/TV industry $330-million USD!

San Francisco Is So Expensive, You Can Make Six Figures and Still Be ‘Low Income’

Non-citizens Get Narrow Access to vote in San Francisco

Democrat politicians demand democrat gov’na stop sending National Guard to patrol border with Mexico

Democrat Dianne Feinstein is being challenged by Democrats

California bans local soda taxes

California’s state-level travel ban blocks Oklahoma politicians!

new water restrictions send residents fleeing to saner states

illegal to shower and do laundry on the same day?

Cop sentenced to nearly 8 years in prison for sex crimes

wildfire leads governor to declare emergency

‘Weed Apocalypse’ dawns as new California marijuana quality control law could destroy ganja dispensaries

landlords say they’ll back caps on rent increases — if a big rent control measure goes away (say, isn’t a cap on rent the same as rent control?)

The Californization of America

COLORADO: taxpayer funded one-stop website for business registration, licensing

leftist Colorado to adopt California’s stricter car pollution rules

Bill for Failed Colorado anti-homosexual/pro-christian bakery owner lawsuit sent to taxpayers

6 Questions About Colorado’s true reasons for Suing Opioid Drug Makers

 6 Wildfires

hail storm caused estimated $169M in losses (and that’s just for people who had insurance)

Oil And Gas industry threatens Taxpayers not to Vote Against new Drilling

CONNECTICUT:  Refuses to send National Guard to patrol U.S. border with Mexico

State Comptroller’s Office has been forcing non-union members to pay union dues!

Imposes internet sales tax

State taxpayers forced to pay $80-million USD in ‘economic assistance’, supposedly to create 19-thousand jobs!

State taxpayers forced to give professors an 11% pay raise! 

State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection demanding that taxpayers start counting Wild Turkeys!

DELAWARE: Tiny state of Delaware has a new $4.2 Billion taxpayer funded Budget

draws $322,135 in bets on Day 1 of full-scale sports betting

new anti-2nd Amendment Firearm Confiscation Law

Refuses to send National Guard to patrol U.S. border with Mexico 

anti-American Delaware leases its Port of Wilmington to United Arab Emirates!

Attorney and University of Delaware trustee resigns amid sex crimes accusations

FLORIDA: Over 100 new Florida laws 

Judge halts ban on smoking medical marijuana

Suicides rates in Florida have risen over 10 percent

Taxpayer funded contractors  sparked Eastpoint fire that destroyed 36 homes

Hurricane Irma emergency contracts cost taxpayers millions

new $88.7 billion taxpayer funded budget

Florida ranks pretty low in household earnings

Another reason why it’s not lack of gun control laws; for some unknown reason Florida stopped doing gun permit checks for more than a year

GEORGIA: Lawsuit tries to force Georgia to use paper ballots in 2018 elections

Candidate for Governor Bought Condo From Lobbyist

Secret recording shows Candidate backed ‘bad’ bill to hurt gov race rival

Federal taxpayers giving Georgia millions of tax dollars to create pay-as-you-go toll roads on state highway 400!

State taxpayers forced to pay $100-million USD for new bus route on state highway 400!

Georgia forcing state taxpayers to pay for attracting ‘Hollywood’ production companies!

Oil and gas industry begins hard lobbying for political support of offshore drilling

voters in two districts were given the wrong ballots?

Georgia police officer stalked and hunted black man

Veteran protesting treatment by VA sets himself on fire 

GUAM: America’s day begins in Guam

No abortion providers on Guam

Baby left at doorstep

Extended tax amnesty ends

Governor’s office security takes toll on police budget

Guam Memorial Hospital under investigation for ripping off federal taxpayers

Whistle-blower reveals Department of Land shredded hundreds of property titles?

11 beaches polluted

HAWAII: housing is so expensive that the gov’na is forcing taxpayers to add $210M to affordable housing funds

The gov’na says Hawaii Not Ready For Police Standards 

What A Constitutional Convention Might Cost Hawaiian Taxpayers

What a Washington state based political Consultant Is Doing In Hawaii Is A Mystery

Revealed; farmers in Hawaii have been allowed to use ‘secret’ pesticides!

IDAHO:  Skeptical crowd questions Avista sale to Canadian utility

Idaho usurps federal EPA water regulation, gov’na calls it “a big day for Idaho.”

State taxpayers spent millions sending prisoners to other states, and it didn’t work

Foreign and domestic migration to The Gem State has resulted in massive prison overcrowding, taxpayers asked to spend $500-million USD to build new state prison!

 ‘dirty laundry’ in Idaho’s open meeting law?

“Idaho State University students peacefully protesting our Republican convention. Do you think I should show these girls the empty 30mm shell I have in the truck?”

Bingham County Sheriff’s deputy kills herself

Nampa man dies while in Bonneville County Jail

Idaho’s insane mental health ‘system’ draws standing room only crowd to public forum!

Is Pocatello mental health Crisis Center a ‘game changer’, or too little too late?

The exalted leaders of Pocatello/Bannock County can’t stop lying about how great their economy is, so here’s a reality check; “Pocatello couldn’t stay out of the top ten poorest places in Idaho”Roadsnacks.net

United Way released its new poverty/ALICE rankings and Bannock County (where Pocatello is located) ranked 46% combined poverty/ALICE (18% poverty, 28% ALICE), meaning almost half of people living in the county are struggling with everyday necessities.  United Way also declared that the so called recovery from The Great Recession is “flat”, meaning no economic recovery despite all the taxpayer funded construction projects.  (clue; when taxpayers fund the majority of construction projects it’s usually a sign the private sector is in trouble)

New Idaho laws take effect on July 1

ILLINOIS: Federal Government Ends Oversight of Cook County Jail’s Medical Center

$53-million to rebuild veteran’s home?

Illinois budgets $200 million for Obama-related projects, $0 for Veteran Grant Program

Taxpayer funded buyouts of state employee retirement pensions will take time due to complexities

new taxpayer funded state budget is just ‘more of the same’

Taxpayers want Illinois to secede from Obama’s money pit Chicago

Fight Against Chicago Streaming Tax

Most Dangerous Cities in Illinois

Illinois is home to more units of government than any other state — nearly 7,000!

Children Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t

the 2nd highest black unemployment rate

INDIANA: New Indiana laws

$25-million in emergency funding for Child Services

Revealed that the state government has been sitting on $21.6-million USD in taxes (since the 1990s) that should’ve been distributed to local municipalities! 

 abortion tally grew 6.8 percent 

Repeal of state ‘sub-minimum’ wage law could kill employers of disabled workers

Federal court halts Indiana’s attempt to purge duplicate voter registrations

IOWA: Seven counties declared disaster areas

Train derails, spills 230,000 gallons of oil into river

governor’s race will shatter spending record

court reduces government liability for road safety

Court halts fetal heartbeat abortion law

New voter ID rules 

KANSAS:  judge strikes down Kansas voter law requiring proof of citizenship

Kansas outsourcing taxpayer funded InfoTech jobs

Kansas uses robot chatbox to answer taxpayer’s complaints

tuition and fee increases for state universities

New sales tax law

Taxpayer funded Federal Fund Exchange to improve roads?

National Guard to haul bottled water to Norton

Foster Kids Sleeping In ‘christian’ contractor’s Offices

Innocent man spent 16 years in prison, activist group says at least 5-hundred innocent people are in state prison, Kansas now offering 65-thousand tax dollars for every year of wrongful imprisonment to prisoners found innocent!

KENTUCKY: judge blocks Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements

Judge Rules Kentucky Pension Law Unconstitutional

Kentucky has one of the worst economies in the U.S.

Non-profits hit by new sales tax law

New tax laws so confusing that tax dollars are being spent on a website to explain them!

Finally, Bourbon Without Borders

LOUISIANA:  food stamp program threatened with shutdown

‘Too many broken promises’

New sales tax rate in effect

spending tax dollars on website to monitor state tax spending

Special sessions costing Louisiana taxpayers a pretty penny

Louisiana pays 42 million tax dollars to settle lawsuits

State no longer incarceration capital

state trooper accused of raping 16-year-old girl

FBI probing vote-buying allegations

innocent man spent 40 years in prison!

MAINE: voters blew up their votng system 

19 Eel Smugglers Sentenced, But Lucrative illegal Trade Persists

Uptick in Child Abuse, Neglect Cases

Maine Senate candidate arrested at border

gender-neutral driver licenses

MARYLAND: Up to 80,000 voters will have to file provisional ballots

Race to spend taxpayer money on pay-as-you-go toll roads

Maryland Area Regional Commuter train can’t make mandatory federal safety upgrades?

Google stops taking political ads in Maryland

New Maryland laws

crab houses expect to go without immigrant workers

Taxpayer funded California based engineering company AECOM issued a WARN, at least 173 jobs gone by August due to the taxpayer funded contract being ‘reduced’!

MASSACHUSETTS: $15 Minimum Wage, Required Paid Leave 

Refuses to send National Guard troops to U.S. border with Mexico

Gov’na’s son accused of sex crimes

3 State Police Troopers Charged With Theft

Senate approves ‘red flag’ gun bill without roll call vote

Taxpayers forced to give scientists $500-million USD

State’s highest court kills ‘millionaires’ tax’

Stranded Passengers Furious After Green Line Suspension

Puerto Rican refugees in Massachusetts face homelessness

MICHIGAN: 

Grand Rapids based and federal taxpayer funded Bethany Christian Services (who’s slogan is Bringing & Keeping Families Together) “…an adoption center with financial ties to [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos, has taken 81 immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border. Most have had no contact with their families. They’re charging $700 per child per night. This isn’t foster care, this is state-sponsored kidnapping!”

Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) issued a shutdown WARN for three counties, 318 jobs gone if cash strapped voters don’t approve more taxpayer funding!

Michigan to close prison as part of budget agreement

On Medicaid? Then you better get a job!

lawmakers’ repeal prevailing wage law

Taxpayers forced to ‘grant’ schools $17-billion USD!

Michigan State University forces taxpayers to make $500-million settlement!

Federal taxpayers funding Michigan contractors who steal immigrant children!

Wayne County approves new $533 million jail complex

It’s official — There’s a housing shortage in Michigan

Domino’s Pizza is paving the nation’s potholes, but not Michigan’s

Innocent man who spent 25 years in prison is barely surviving on SNAP and SS!

MINNESOTA: Big Medicare shift coming to Minnesota

Disability job program cut

‘It’s going to be a mess’ come tax season

MNLARS repair money running out

Supreme Court throws out Minnesota voter attire law

Watchdog nonprofit sues Minnesota for Amazon HQ2 details

Federal taxpayers funding Minnesota contractors who steal immigrant children!

police officer arrested for assaulting, threatening wife

MISSISSIPPI:  Foster care takeover fight

Protesters torch Mississippi flag

Taxpayers forced to spend an additional $56-million USD on water projects

In a state with only one clinic, Mississippi approves the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S.

Court rules that Mississippi Judges can’t regulate concealed guns

over 2000 teacher job openings!

MISSOURI: Missouri loses millions of dollars in taxes

Top adviser to new Missouri governor owes nearly $300,000 in back taxes

dark-money group a ‘criminal enterprise’ 

Woman seeks apology after government workers caught shaming family

State Treasurer launches annual effort to find owners of $1 billion worth of unclaimed property

Innocent man spent 36 years and 10 days in prison!

MONTANA: Hacktivists targeting state computers

Contract public defenders sue over hourly rate decrease

State prison system torturing disabled prisoners?

Missing and murdered indigenous women in Montana

Montana tribe can’t account for $14.5 million in taxpayer grants

Auditor says state Dept. of Transportation covering up how it spends your money!

Judge temporarily blocks Medicaid cuts

Montana tops national trend of increasing suicide rates

What global warming? June snowstorm hits Montana’s mountains

NEBRASKA: Driverless shuttle arrives in Lincoln

officials demand access to health records of women referred for emergency abortions​

Judge orders Nebraska to release lethal injection records

prisons playing major role in mental health care

prison employees complain of no pay raises, blames their union

Prison employee arrested for meth

22 arrested in sex trafficking sting

state tax collections lower than expected

Nebraska one of top states for rise in home prices

New hunting permit payment

Military medals found among 200 safe deposit boxes the state raids every year

NEVADA: marijuana tax revenue blows past 12-month projections

How Tesla uses cash from Nevada casinos to boost its bottom line

$5 million electric utility dollars (meaning utility customers ultimately pay) approved for electric car charging stations

Taxpayer funded Nevada boards pay more than allowed by law, more than even the gov’na!

New car insurance law

Man pleads guilty to voter fraud

Nuclear Dumping Ground: It’s not Just Yucca Mountain

NEW HAMPSHIRE: New Hampshire Suicide Rates Are Skyrocketing

surplus spending bill (interesting because in April they said they were short on cash)

NH wants $3.1 Million in federal taxpayer funded Election Security Funding

NH cop accused of illegal search

Gov’na refuse to deploy National Guard to border 

New Hampshire Fish and Game involved in secret shooting?

 2017 was deadliest year for drug overdoses

NEW JERSEY: More than 8 people are dying from drug overdoses in NJ each day

NJ Refuse to Send National Guard to U.S.-Mexico border

Fire suppression system causes taxpayer funded data center outage

Five New Jersey Police Officers Charged With Theft and Misconduct

NEW MEXICO:  Land commissioner sues top water official

New Mexico ranks last in child well-being

 state tax secretary accused in court of corruption

Tax revenue soars, due to surging oil production

11 Children, Youth and Families Department employees accused of mishandling child sex crimes

NEW YORK: A NYC cop Lied to the Grand Jury. Now She’s Going to Jail.

The NYPD Sex Crimes Unit Still Needs Help

Prisoners Endure A Nightmare ‘Gulag’ In Lower Manhattan

Freed prisoner says other prisoners are innocent

NYC Cop who killed student is freed after only four months

Separated Children Have Quietly Been Sent to New York

New York City Housing Authority, Accused of Endangering Residents

NORTH CAROLINA:  Lawmakers Override governor,  Cap Income Tax

One third of new tax payer funded state budget going to the Piedmont Triad’s 12 counties

sheriff accused of calling Latinos ‘taco-eaters’ 

New ‘certificates of relief’ allows employers hire people with multiple felony convictions

State Department of Commerce accused of using unreliable data

North Carolina ranked 55.06 out of a possible 99.99 on its economy

first to make $15 minimum wage law for (most) state employees

Victory for Whistleblowers 

NORTH DAKOTA: Another round of state employee buyouts (voluntary separation incentive program) was launched, last year the state convinced 159 employees to quit at a cost of 2.9-million tax dollars.

District courts demand more employees

State auditor orders gov’na to stop using taxpayer funded aircraft for “commuting to or from personal residences”

Taxpayers forced to pay $4.6-million USD in Outdoor Heritage Fund grants

Department of Transportation reveals that fixing state roads will put the state in debt by $14.6-billion

Oil revenues exceed forecast, but state budget boost unlikely

What Ever Happened To The Dakota Access Pipeline?

voter I-D changes

Small town to ‘dissolve’ over ‘supremacy’ accusations

North Dakota fines CenturyLink $25,000 due to One Call violations

Suicide rates in North Dakota saw largest spike nationwide

OHIO: Federal taxpayers forced to give $16-million USD to help PTT Global Chemical ethane plant

Oil and gas companies to be exempted from Ohio taxes?

Montgomery County jacks-up sales tax

New law forces teachers to out students

Ohio State University dissolves its Sexual Civility and Empowerment (SCE) unit 

 ‘Pastor Protection’ Law

 Dayton’s Water More Dangerous Than Previously thought

Mercy Health fined $14.25 million

Innocent man spent 16 years in prison!

Bazetta Police Officer fired following alleged assault

police officer fired for abuse of power

Cop Fired After Racist Posts About his Boss

Fired police officers often have edge in arbitration cases

Police to be replaced by drones in the sky

man dies after being Tasered by police

man mistakenly attacked by police K-9 wants answers

114 illegal immigrants caught working for Ohio landscaper

146 illegal immigrants caught working for Ohio meat plant

Neighbors Call Police on 12-Year-Old Boy Who Was Mowing a Lawn

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma is not only number one in the nation for locking people up in prison, it’s number one in the entire world!!!

Innocent man spent 26 years in prison!

Ex-cop jailed after multi-county pursuit

Oklahoma Ethics Commission files lawsuit against Gov. Mary Fallin, legislative leaders

University of Oklahoma releases police reports related to former professor

Oklahoma State University jacks-up tuition

Oklahoma drops into the bottom 10 states for child well-being

Suicide rate increases by 37 percent

OREGON:  TV show reveals innocent woman spent 12 years in prison!

Police kill man who was trying to stop a fight

Portland police commander arrested after DUII crash 

Newport police sergeant arrested on sex abuse charges 

Thousands of drivers are violating school bus stop laws 

Oregon.gov blacklisted

State employees hit with new transportation tax

Comcast settlement will be used to shore-up failing local government employee retirement funds

PENNSYLVANIA:  Innocent man spent 25 years in prison!

Police Officer Charged With Homicide

Aliquippa assistant police chief charged with sending sexually explicit material to minor

Berks detention center for immigrant families still in operation

Report finds ‘grave’ concern with Pennsylvania’s death penalty law

Natural gas is one of the cleanest burning fuels, yet state taxpayers are being forced to pay for new anti-natural gas laws.

Governor to sign utility-backed measure drawing criticism

Two taxpayer funded gentrification/private sector redevelopment bills enacted under the guise of ‘eradicating blight’.

Where did $13M in taxpayer funded public salaries go?

40 percent of households struggle to make ends meet

Taxpayers forced to give newborns a $100 scholarship

LGBTQA Hagerstown Hopes co-founded pled guilty to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from employer

Bell Acres councilman accused in court of driving through crowd of protesters

PUERTO RICO:  Florida donates taxpayer funded cop cars to Puerto Rico 

78 killings in one month

True ‘official’ storm death toll to skyrocket after court ruling

How Puerto Rico Maxed Out On taxpayer funded Bonds

Taxpayer funded Electrical Grid Still ‘Teetering’,  despite that Tesla claims it has ‘about 11000’ energy storage projects underway in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico attempts to Become 51st State

Thousands of people threatened with homelessness as FEMA cuts off assistance, despite the fact that taxpayer funded FEMA just awarded a contractor $189-million USD!

RHODE ISLAND:  A third taxpayer funded state government lawyer found to have no license to practice

Department of Transportation snafu could cost taxpayers $4M

Anybody ever hear of Hospital Operation Room smoke caused by “energy generating devices” (aka ‘electrosurgical smoke’)? Apparently it’s become such a problem that Rhode Island is the first state in the U.S. to force taxpayers to make hospital O-Rs smoke free!

Malware breach at 3 state agencies

Rhode Island creates taxpayer funded ‘trucks only’ pay-as-you-go toll roads

New state law bans cellphones while driving

Local police chiefs say they can’t comply with new mental health training rules because of the costs

Councilman harassed East Providence city employees

Treasurer for Block Island fire department accused of embezzling

Cop arrested for domestic assault uses legal judo flip and accuses his victim of violating a little known state law! 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Local governments force taxpayers to give businesses millions in incentives, but the math is fuzzy

Veteran senator resigns after pleading guilty

Pickens cop arrested after crashing car with child inside, the cop was drunk

distracted deputy nearly runs over students getting on school bus 

Separated Children Have Quietly Been Sent to South Carolina

James Island town residents face 13 percent property tax increase

SOUTH DAKOTA:  sheriff loses re-election, fires winning deputy

ex-cop, veteran gets jail time for meth

postmaster fined $353K for stealing $9K from post office

Opioid fentanyl causing spike in overdoses

Data breach, ballot question and beer laws 

TransCanada files bond for Keystone XL

$126 million in taxes reaped from Wharf Mine

State prison system sued over lack of taxpayer funded computer tablets for prisoners

TENNESSEE: Over 150 new laws

New Tax Laws

$230M Medicare Fraud

Woman suspended from taxpayer funded job after being accused of having an affair with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation boss

Middle Tennessee State University police officer accused of theft

TEXAS:  Dallas Police Chief Meets Citizens After City Leaders Question Crime Stats

Arrest Warrants Issued for 4 Dallas Police Officers

Lexington police chief accused of misusing official information

Corsicana police officer placed on leave after DWI arrest

Waco PD officer convicted 

Texas is 4th Most Unsafe State

Texas tent camp for migrant children

State Agencies Ordered to Cut Supplemental Budgets by 10 Percent despite a Billion Dollar Windfall 

1 in 4 Texas clinics closed 

Contents of taxpayer funded natural disaster response building infected with blood sucking parasites

UTAH: Why do so many Mormons back Trump?  (the author of this article needs to come to Mormon dominated Idaho, Idaho Mormons don’t like Trump)

‘Domestic foreigner’ (former elitist gov’na of Massachusetts) Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah

Proof that elections are just another form of bribery: Sheriff candidates are the big spenders in Utah

‘Handcuffed’ cities: the new transportation tax

State taxpayer funded study of marijuana repeatedly delayed

Zionist-Nazi U.S. taxpayer funded Israeli ‘homeland security’ company to open Utah location

Mystery Utah data center gets tax break approval

Prisoners forced to pay tribute to Mormon pioneers!

Lawsuit filed by widow of Ogden man killed in prison settled out of court

Pro-police, anti-gun judge sides with Ogden cops as he dismisses a gun-rights lawsuit by a man who went to the police for medical help! Instead of helping him the cops broke his leg and arrested him for having a gun, which is our Constitutional Right!

Ex-SWAT deputy files $1M suit against Davis County

Retention, recruitment ‘killing’ Utah police and fire departments (short 600 cops statewide)

Provo city council may raise property taxes to face ‘crisis’ in police force

Sandy City forcing taxpayers to spend $1 million to recruit police officers

Creating Utah’s Newest Police Department

Massive ‘clean-up’ effort underway at ‘illegal’ homeless encampments

Free-range(?) parenting gets legal protection in Utah (gee, when I was a kid that was normal parenting, mom yelling at the kids to go outside and stay outta da gott-damned house)

Five Utah Counties implement evil emissions testing for diesel powered vehicles 

VERMONT: State taxpayers being ripped off by privately run prisons that have record of killing prisoners.

Vermont suicide rates far outpace nation’s

dysfunctional tax system

Border Patrol plans 5 more checkpoints for immigration

Why Vermont Will Pay You $10000 To Move There And Work ‘Remotely

reduced Unemployment Insurance taxes for employers (which will probably result in reduced unemployment assistance for workers)

Residents now forced by state law to buy failed ObamaCare-ACA insurance!

VIRGINIA:  Taxpayer funded Northrop Grumman lost its 13 years old $2-billion USD InfoTech contract with the state, 348 people now hoping a new InfoTech contractor will be hired!

Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children

The ins and outs of Virginia’s new Medicaid expansion

The owner of the Red Hen explains why she asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave

James River Air Conditioning Co. settles federal lawsuit for $625,000, for underpaying employees working under federal taxpayer funded contracts!

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality website hacked

State taxpayers forced to give an ADDITIONAL $50-million USD to law enforcement agencies!

Virginia police captain arrested for possession of child pornography

Cops shoot each other during gun training, two wounded!

Dayton police chief demoted

Two Lynchburg officers indicted in shooting that left an innocent homeowner blind!

City confirms police employee spoke on white nationalist’s podcast

student bloodied in arrest reaches settlement with the state

WASHINGTON:  State Trooper in trouble for flying confederate flag at home (what happened to Freedom of Expression?)

Seattle cracks down on loud vehicle exhausts

Seattle’s new ‘sleeping dragon’ police-state tactics

Deputy in standoff charged with assault

Police Accused Of Lying

Seattle quietly steals homeless people’s vehicles, under the guise of picking up trash!

Western State Hospital’s failures blamed on gov’na

British empire member Canada acquires key pipeline link to Washington refineries

Seattle landlords competing for scarce tenants

WASHINGTON DC: the highest black unemployment rate

The Supreme Court Blesses Voter Purges

Are DC’s poorest neighborhoods falling off the electoral map?

Residents Sue Washington DC For Racist Gentrification Practices

DC police commander removed amid rise in homicides

Family of cop killed by ‘friendly’ fire during police ambush files lawsuit against police

WEST VIRGINIA: High-level state Judge to be impeached for fraud, witness tampering and misuse of government property!

lawmaker sues governor to force him to move 

Wild & Not So Wonderful Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars On Display

Politicians blame others for failed taxpayer funded recovery after 2016 floods

Elk captured in Arizona died awaiting release in West Virginia

Elitist Gov’na hasn’t paid years of taxes on family’s historic properties, and nobody wants to buy them!  

WISCONSIN: NBA player sues Milwaukee police, claiming excessive force

Wisconsin’s first arrest from a massive rape kits backlog

Retired Beloit officer charged with child sex assault

Scott Walker orders National Guard troops to U.S./Mexico border

Wisconsin poverty rate up despite job gains

Taxpayers forced to pay for new emergency services radio system

Bird scooters illegal to operate

WYOMING: State Auditor Charged us $8,000 And We’ll Finally Receive The State Checkbook By 2048

The people of Wyoming deserve transparency about government spending

Number of new Wyoming oil and gas wells rose 60 percent 

Highway Patrol trooper shoots and kills dog

Jackson, Teton County lose cops, apparently because of lack of pay

In an attempt to retain cops, Cheyenne Police Department relaxes tattoo rules

Increase in arrogant/ignorant bicyclists violating traffic laws prompts cops to make bike video

9-1-1 called numerous times because of loud music being played at University of Wyoming’s football practice

Welcome to Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility

U.S. government shenanigans, May 2018: ‘ZOMBIE ALERT’ IS FOR REAL

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., June 2018:  “LOCKDOWN, LOCKDOWN”

ObamaCare (ACA) death spiral, June 2018: “…WE HAD THE WORST YEAR…EVER…”

Drugs, The American Way, June 2018: ‘THE DREAM MARKET’

‘American’ Military Spread Thin: North America Front, May 2018