Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for November 2018:

ALABAMA: state trooper killed after shooting District Attorney 

Castleberry, a speed trap town, might soon resolve lawsuit

Cop who killed innocent man at mall escapes criminal charges

ALASKA: Evil Anchorage backs off cuts to new budget amid public outcry, some of the cuts were actually covert homeless people eradication operations!

Alaska Sees Record Breaking Year For Oil And Gas Leases

Rethinking Alaska’s Only Maximum-Security Prison

The tumultuous relationship between SB 91 and addiction 

ARKANSAS:  Illegal DACA immigrant tries caught on video in shootout with deputy

British empire Canadian Firm Seeks Arkansas Pilot Plant to Extract Lithium

Washington County eyes property tax increase

2019 taxpayer funded budget for Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport increases to $35-million

ARIZONA: Man Freed From Prison Accused of Killing Woman on Same Day

Prison guard accused of assaulting prisoners

Once again, Judge orders Arizona prisons to comply with healthcare

Report finds disproportionate sentencing along racial lines

motorists to pay an extra $32 fee on vehicle registration

Deputy U.S. marshal shot and killed serving arrest warrant

MCSO deputy sheriff arrested on child molestation charges

Temporary housing for U.S. Army soldiers arriving at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for border patrol ops, 02NOV2018.

Lieutenant General Jeffrey Buchanan, of United States Army Northern Command, inspects the border wall near Nogales, 29NOV2018.

Video report of inspection of Wisconsin National Guard personnel deployed to Arizona border wall operations:

CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded Ahtna Support & Training Services issued a layoff WARN for their ops at the U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin, 53 jobs gone by the end of the year.

In the near total gun ban Golden State 12 people dead, including sheriff’s deputy.

deputy killed pursuing 5-time drunken driver

2 San Diego Deputies Charged With Assault

L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy, 2 Others Accused of Robbing Marijuana Warehouse During Bogus Raid

‘best big jail in nation’ thought female prisoner was faking being pregnant, until the baby arrived: “They ignored me completely. I noticed they shut the little window to muffle my screams because I was screaming, ‘Help me! Help me! My baby’s coming!’ I’m standing there in a puddle of my own blood…and all the deputy could say was, ‘Oh, OK.’ I just couldn’t believe they would put me through that.”-former prisoner now suing county taxpayers over the prison crime

 ‘extraordinary’ state budget surplus

Court Orders Moratorium on Offshore Fracking Off California

BIG OIL HAS SPENT MILLIONS TRYING TO DEFEAT San Luis Obispo COUNTY

Pacific Gas & Electric reveals it’s spending money lobbying the state government to reduce fines it must pay for causing wildfires as a result of not maintaining powerlines

Border fence reinforcement ops at Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach, 15NOV2018.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan meets with Governor of Baja California Fransciso Vega de Lamadrid and Mexican Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Ricardo Aguilar prior to a tour of border operations at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

U.S. Marines reinforce the border wall at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, 16NOV2018.

COLORADO: Fuel Burns Near Colorado Oil Well Site

Voters reject oil well setbacks

Adams County cop calls voters ‘stupid’

Assault on a Moffat County Sheriff’s deputy might be linked to prison gang

El Paso County deputy sentenced to 6 years in prison

$45 million taxpayer funded budget increase for Denver parks

CONNECTICUT:  Report Projects Toll roads Could Raise $1 Billion a Year

Surging tax receipts dramatically shrink budget hole 

5 Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative officials indicted for conspiracy, theft from a program receiving federal funds.

Norwalk Judicial cop arrested after she allegedly stole from a developmentally-challeged woman

DELAWARE: More drones spotted flying over state’s largest male prison

Delaware gas prices remain lowest in nation

‘Traffic nightmare’ over as Delaware Memorial Bridge reopens

Newark City Council approves $94.6 million budget, 4 percent tax hike

Delaware sending 330 prisoners to Pennsylvania at cost to state taxpayers of $40,000 per day

FLORIDA: “high-technology woman-owned, small disadvantaged company built on a strong culture of ethics” (LinkedIn.com description) which was sued in 2015 for defrauding taxpayers regarding a contract with NASA, Yang Enterprises eliminating 141 jobs at Kennedy Space Center, by the end of January 2019!

Deputy charged with attempted sexual battery on other deputy

Deputy at School Shooting Called a ‘Coward’

deputy accused of assaulting woman in front of child

Florida International University Deputy Chief Arrested for Bar Fight

Three prison guards arrested for smuggling cash into jail

Voters approve ban on oil drilling, vaping indoors

Despite voter ban Oil companies are already back to pushing for offshore drilling

Anger simmering over election recount

GEORGIA: Savannah proposing $399 million budget, flat tax rate

Federal judge delays certification of state election results

deputy resigns following DUI-hit-and-run charge

deputy resigns amid domestic violence arrest

5 Richmond County deputies arrested in one month

GUAM:  The U.S. Territory Has Just Elected Its First-Ever Female Governor

Guam Economic Development Authority accused of creating $100-thousand per year job for a former GEDA deputy!

Guam Election Commission accuses the deputy director of the Bureau of Budget and Management Research of violating financial disclosure rules

HAWAII: OHA Offering $7 Million in taxpayer funded Community Grants

For proof it’s all rigged, State Legislature says Leadership Will Stay The Same Despite New Faces

U.S. Postal Service suggests Christmas mailing dates just for Hawaii

UH Wants 40 Million additional tax dollars To Help Students Lower Their Tuition Costs

Dentist who had license revoked found innocent of girl’s death, must now beg to get new license

A former death row prisoner has charges of sex trafficking dropped, then gets arrested for invalid I-D and failing to pay a traffic ticket, as he was getting on a plane to attend an Innocence Project meeting!

IDAHO: Lawsuit dismissed against deputies in death of Idaho rancher

Adams County pays $2.6 million to slain rancher’s family

Pocatello police target mom-n-pop stores for selling CBD oil

Boise man accused of stabbing stranger was released from prison 4 months prior

Not much changed in Idaho this election

Did governor candidate Brad Little allow fracking on his land?

Idaho company fined for oil spill in Washington

ILLINOIS: Ziyen Energy Acquires Five New Oil Assets in the Illinois Basin

State needs another $3+ billion a year to stay even

Officer in Fatal Shooting Placed on Leave

Escapee shot, captured after deputy stabbed

INDIANA: reserve deputy found asleep in car charged with OWI

Deputy sentenced to 152 years

Indianapolis Housing Agency wants to cut public safety budget despite crime increase

Center Township wants local tax increase of 26.8 percent

IOWA: State lottery raking in the bucks, but state agencies not benefiting

Rock Island County raises property taxes 11.9%, despite collecting $6.3-million last year

Iowa gas prices drop about 40 cents in the past month

deputy cited for illegal possession of whitetail deer antlers (caught cutting off antlers after deer was killed by a vehicle)

County Attorney NOT arrested for drugs

KANSAS: Investigation leads to charges against Doniphan County deputy

Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputy arrested

undersheriff who killed man with beanbag wasn’t trained

Deer killed after attacking deputy

Gas price drops below $2 a gallon in Wichita

State treasury has money waiting for 1.5 million people

Child Welfare Groups Want state taxpayers To Spend $30 Million

$100M tax revenue surplus

Kansas turned blue? 

KENTUCKY: How Kentucky fails its workers

Sniffing for oil, Pittsburgh energy firm heading into Kentucky

Bath County deputy accused of trying to have child sex

Grand jury re-indicts chief deputy of Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office

jail video shows guard slamming prisoner to floor

LOUISIANA: Sheriff captains accused of taking bribes from for-profit prison corporation’s prisoner work release program

Louisiana to get $91 million in federal oil and gas revenue

Coast Guard orders cleanup of massive 14-year oil spill

landowners sue Bayou Bridge pipeline for trespassing and damage

Who’s drilling in Louisiana? 

Louisiana to Get Another $164 Million in British Petroleum Oil Spill Restoration Grants

Coast Guard responds to crude oil spill into marsh near Dulac

forecasters downgrade job growth outlook for Louisiana oil 

No Election Day voting sticker? It’s blamed on lack of money

funding for prison system, sheriffs on hold

Louisiana may have misspent $85M in Medicaid program

Despite claims of no money in the budget for other agencies, lawmakers want to give teachers a pay raise!

MAINE: County approves settlement with deputy accused of domestic violence

Heating Prices Recede Slightly 

tax hike to fund universal home care

Bids on Falmouth Route 100 project come in over budget

Weeks Before Medicaid Expansion Deadline, Governor Files Motion to Delay

MARYLAND: County official pleads guilty to charges related to embezzlement 

Voters Say Taxes From Casinos Should Go to Schools

sheriff’s deputy charged with rape, sodomy

High schoolers indicted for raping classmates with a broom in a locker room

MASSACHUSETTS: Two Adult-Use Dispensaries Sold $2.2 Million Worth of Cannabis in First Five Days of Legal Operations

Level 2 Hazmat Situation in Downtown Boston

Fire Breaks Out at Chemical Factory

upside-down tax system

taxpayers will benefit from $4M budget error, yet property taxes will still go up

MICHIGAN: Gov’na wants taxpayers to pay $4.5-million for a tunnel

Kent County budget increase funded by 35% from taxes, 22% from service charges (where does the rest of the funding come from?)

The state has extra money to spend because tax revenues have been “higher than anticipated” 

More radioactive fracking waste could be coming to Michigan

Gov’na wants Great Lakes oil pipeline

Galesburg residents voice opposition to oil lease proposed in city park

sheriff arrested for drunken driving

Deputy kills prisoner after struggle inside ambulance

Woman claims charges against her are retaliation for her accusing a deputy of sex assault

MINNESOTA: deputy suspected of forging warrants 

mental health crises end in fatal encounters with cops

police chief found dead

Line 3 oil pipeline moves closer to construction in northern Minnesota

No ‘trickle down’ for local gas prices

City Council shifts $1.1-million away from Minneapolis Police Department’s plan to “civilianize existing sworn positions”

MISSISSIPPI:  new lottery will help save the state budget?

Jackson libraries face an existential crisis 

High Court to Hear Case on Juror Discrimination

Deputies held U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, simply because they were driving back from a vacation in Mexico

police officer indicted on charge of fondling child

MISSOURI: Platte County deputy faces charges of harassment, violating protection order

Gasconade County Deputy Is Charged With Assault

Male sheriff and female chief deputy charged with assault, robbery, endangering a child, illegal use of a weapon, misuse of official information by a public servant and false impersonation

The last Police Officer In Garden City is Fired

State tax collection down about $110 million, blamed on federal tax cuts

MONTANA: University of Montana budget cuts $5 million

Montana Corrections department cutting 22 jobs 

Pipeline spills crude oil on private property 

Montana Man Gets Year in Prison for Oil Plant Explosion

Federal BLM moving ahead on most oil and gas leases

Sheriff candidates NOT accused of sexual misconduct triumph in rural elections

NEBRASKA: two restaurants shutdown after 22 illegal immigrants arrested

County commissioner facing criminal charges found dead

administrative services director fired for allowing bullying

Nebraska makes it easier for investors to steal farms

Buffalo County already out of road gravel funding, in less than five month

NEVADA:  Prisoner whose execution was called off found dead in cell

Tampon tax?

vacancies created by state election victories

Voters reject breaking up monopoly NV Energy

Nevada sage grouse habitat versus oil, gas lease auction

We may never know exactly why Nevada politicians put $2 million on campaign credit cards

Huge voter turnout, maybe because Some Polls Stayed Open 3 Extra Hours

NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Heating oil spill threatens drinking water supply

man charged with impersonating police in two states

Dover tax rate reduced, but property tax bills will still rise

Fish & Game struggling

$1 Billion state Budget Shortfall

NEW JERSEY: State taxpayers forced to fund $2.1 million in legal aid for illegal immigrants

Chris Christie’s official taxpayer funded-foreign painted portrait, most expensive ever!

Already damaged by years of oil spills, Perth Amboy terminal could become hub for crude exports

New Jersey cops can’t bust residents over immigration status 

Tax collector charged with stealing from 3 municipalities

NEW MEXICO: deputy finally appears in court on contempt charge

Deputy released from jail after new charge filed

Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America’s lands

Shale Boom Makes a New Mexico

NEW YORK: Did New York and Virginia Overpay for Amazon?

Amazon Is Coming. Can New York’s Transit System Handle It?

Sheriff’s deputy was in uniform while trespassing

NORTH CAROLINA: Incoming sheriff vows to end cooperation with federal illegal immigration investigations

‘I have guns’: police chief charged with domestic violence

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers temporarily suspends work on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

NORTH DAKOTA: Native American tribes scrambling to print new I-Ds 

North Dakota grows into its ongoing oil boom

North Dakota OKs oil processing plant expansion 

State judicial branch asks for new money to increase staffing in 2019-21

National Guard Strips Tuition Funding for ROTC Scholarship Students

new round of UND employee buyouts

counties on hook for Keystone XL protest costs

fire chief arrested on felony charge

Law Officer Convicted Of Corrupting Teenage Boy

City accountant on trial for fraud in case linked to murder-for-hire

Voter turnout high 

Native Americans say new state law blocks their Right to vote

OHIO:  Eight Permits Issued in Ohio’s Utica Shale

food store keeps CBD oil on shelves despite state ban

Hamilton County sheriff patrol cuts, fee hikes 

Cincinnati Metro burning through its financial reserves

OKLAHOMA: University of Oklahoma lays off 50 staffers

Oklahoma Halts Roan Oil Well Completion After Quake

OIPA and OKOGA merge, unify oil and gas associations

reserve deputy sentenced to 10-year probation for child porn

Two jailers charged after allegedly beating a restrained prisoner

Police Chief Accused Of Ethics Violation

OREGON: deputy pleads guilty to misconduct after having sex on duty

State budget officials predict $623 million shortfall

economy slowing, state tax revenue outlook darkens

PENNSYLVANIA: Dauphin County property taxes won’t increase

State College Budget Includes Tax Increase

Crawford County budget includes tax increase

man indicted for impersonating U.S. Marshal

PUERTO RICO: $3,700 Generators and $666 Sinks: FEMA Contractors Charged taxpayers Steep Markups on hurricane Repairs

RHODE ISLAND: $280K from federal coastal resilience fund, and Shell Oil

Offering REAL ID-Compliant Licenses (Real I-D is actually a domestic passport)

$160M state budget deficit

Maybe there’s a state budget deficit because state government workforce swells to 14058 workers and state tax revenue is down by $5 million

SOUTH CAROLINA:  MOX (Mixed Oxide Fuel) Project at the Savannah River Site shutting down due to costing taxpayers “more than one million dollars a day and is about 3 decades behind schedule”. The project was attempting to process plutonium into a ‘safer’ form to be used to power homes.  The first round of layoffs will result in just over 5-hundred people becoming unemployed in January 2019!

Spartanburg County leads the state for police shootings

Offshore oil drilling worth extra $1.6 billion to South Carolina government

police officer on administrative leave after DUI arrest

SOUTH DAKOTA:  Questions remain a year after 400000 gallon Keystone oil spill

Deputy Facing Disorderly Conduct Charges

man faces prison time in water bill dispute

No plea from sheriff-elect in assault case

TENNESSEE: deputy charged with voluntary manslaughter for a 2017 shooting

Here’s the taxpayer funded incentives Tennessee promised Amazon

Disgruntled employee responsible for 20-thousand gallon oil spill

cop accused of sexual contact with teen

body camera footage at center of precedent setting panic attack trial 

man witnesses deputy commit a hit-and-run

TEXAS: Surge of oil and gas flowing to Texas coastline triggers building boom

Husband of deputy sent to prison for choke-hold killing

Renegade Texas cops arrested in New York for double murder

Man kills his sheriff’s deputy father for beating man’s mother

Hurricane Harvey recovery has cost taxpayers $2.7 billion, so far

Arrest of illegal immigrants in McAllen, 15NOV2018.

U.S. Army personnel install concertina wire on the Anzalduas International Bridge, 05NOV2018.

U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct a Del Rio Sector Mobile Field Force Combined Exercise, 16NOV2018.

UTAH: Mitt Romney handily wins U.S. Senate seat from Utah, and he’s not even from Utah, he’s from evil Michigan

Oil sands project begins

Arrogant cop fired after arresting hospital nurse

Trump threatens dinosaur fossils?

VERMONT: $40M state budget gap

For $10 million, 1.6 percent of Stowe can be yours

Department of Public Service officials block release of documents that could show the commissioner is working against the interests of taxpayers

VIRGINIA: State Medicaid costs soar by $462.5 million – but not because of expansion

Richmond Sheriff’s Office running $3.2 million over budget

deputy charged with assaulting prisoner

deputy arrested for rape: ‘Disturbed, disgusted and angry’

The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

On 08NOV2018, the retired battleship USS Wisconsin was used to grant citizenship to 29 military personnel who were born in Philippines, Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, China, Vietnam, Congo, Kenya, Federated States of Micronesia, Togo and Burkina Faso.  According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the City of Norfolk and Nauticus, it was a record number of military personnel granted citizenship in one day.

WASHINGTON: When does the viaduct close? How much is the tunnel toll?

State drops charges against restaurant owner accused of tax theft

police officer charged with assault in alleged drunken incident

voters reject carbon-fee initiative

Seattle homelessness spending tops $90 million

Seattle City Council is poised to shift about $900,000 per year in red-light camera income away from school sidewalk and crosswalk projects

Spokane County raises property taxes

Spokane Schools looking at $436 million budget

EWU athletics official agrees to pay restitution

Washington DC: Maryland Cops accused of driving into DC and paying for sex in cop car

How President Trump Is Impacting Oil Prices

water fees tap into tension over gentrification and the 1st Amendment

U.S. deficits and the debt in 5 charts

WEST VIRGINIA: Natural Gas Industry Keeps Pushing to reduce Payments to Residents

Drilling companies avoiding responsibility to plug orphan wells

deputy reaches plea deal in solicitation case

Convicted state supreme court judge Resigns

Voters Approves Abortion Amendment

Claims of more jobs but fewer workers

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin needs $2 billion more from taxpayers to cover existing programs

Study reveals Rich Pay the Least in Wisconsin Taxes

Tri-Par Oil Exits the C-Store Industry

sheriff’s deputy shoots dog

Family accuses cops of destroying cop-cam video showing they killed an innocent man 

WYOMING:  Deputy won’t be indicted for fatal shooting

What Do Low Oil Prices Mean For Wyoming?

Oil worker killed in explosion 

Despite oil boom, lawmakers want state level hotel tax

Teton County voters approve lodging tax

Laramie County voters approve tax increases

Germany: In the U.S. occupied NATO country the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. AfriCom (Arfrica Command) held their first ever Africa Symposium.  The goal was to figure out why the people of the African continent refuse to accept the U.S. taxpayer funded imposition of U.S. style ‘Rule of Law’ (since 2000, when AfriCom was created): “Do civilians in danger run away from the military or do they run towards the military, and do the security services behave and are they subject to the restraints of the rule of law? If not, I don’t care if they are an African, European, or an Asian army, civilians are going to run away.  Our key strategic goal here, is to help build African armies to which civilians in distress run towards, not away from.”-Alexander Laskaris, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Engagement on the U.S. Africa Command (former U.S. ambassador to Guinea under the Obama regime)

Great Reneger: “We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

Tunisia (Tunis): The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC) completed the sale of more than $338 million worth of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the African country of Tunisia.

ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, November 2018: ‘BERMUDA TRIANGLE’

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., November 2018: “ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE”

U.S. government shenanigans, October 2018:OPERATION FAITHFUL PATRIOT

Drugs, the American way, November 2018: ‘WAR ZONE’