EDITORIAL: Councilors Getting Serious About $$$
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 13--You can bank on it: When our city councilors talk about spending our tax dollars, a crowd is likely to show up.  Last week, more than two dozen taxpayers turned out for a meeting at the City Hall Annex.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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Council tax increases are funding "fat cat" officials earning more than Â£100,000 a year,  campaigners say.
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It's the cost of competition. Large federal agencies are increasingly offering bonuses to recruit employees for hard-to-fill jobs and to keep them from leaving the government.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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City officials are considering billing the campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry for more than &#36;200,000 to cover police department costs for visits by the candidates, their running mates and spouses.
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Here are some of the issues town meeting members will decide:   New middle school  Whether to spend $50,000 toward designing a new middle school. Officials have scaled back the request from $250,000.
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AS THE Legislature and Governor Deval Patrick gear up for what is likely to be a heated budget battle, much of the focus will be on closing corporate tax "loopholes." They hope to find middle ground through an appointed commission that will study the state's corporate tax code. As the debate continues, they should also take a look at funding ...
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By Don Hamilton, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 18--Ridgefield city Councilman Gary Adkins cast a vote this year that could make him millions of dollars.   It happened Jan.
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Independent groups are using their financial muscle as never before to influence the presidential race.
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In many parts of the country, state and local governments are struggling to pay for roads, bridges and other projects because of rising construction costs.
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As the cost of presidential campaigns moves toward the $1 billion mark, leading congressional advocates of tougher campaign finance laws want to reduce the influence of special interests by pumping more taxpayer money into the system.
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Some are starting to wonder whether the mayor's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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They don't put their money where their mouths are.
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Americans have resolved to improve their fiscal lot.
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A probable move to curb funding for a 'surge' may put Democrats at odds with one another.
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Some candidates take âfull disclosureâ too seriously.