The High Cost of Representation: Destin Has Spent More for Lawyers Over Each of the Last Three Years Than Okaloosa's Eight Other Municipalities Combined
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By Wendy Victora And Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 24--A Supreme Court Justice once said that America was the paradise of lawyers. If there's any truth to that, Destin would be Okaloosa County's milk and honey for the Florida Bar.
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Television ads for state Supreme Court races have popped up in an unprecedented 15 states this year, running up record tabs and upping the ante of what had long been generally sleepy affairs.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 21--LONG BEACH -- A plan to waive portions of rebuilding permit fees for churches and other nonprofit groups has stirred hot debate.
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By Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  The Legislature is meddling more and more in local government -- but who's asking for it?  Lawmakers have pushed dozens of bills this session that change the way cities and counties operate.
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By STEVEN WARD  GONZALES - Going against the advice of the city attorney, the City Council voted 3-2 Monday to pay more than $30,000 in legal fees to a Donaldsonville attorney who said he came up short following his work on the Cabela's hunting and fishing store project.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 23--Destin has already been down the road of harbor redevelopment, twice.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 25--The Pierce County Council isn't the only local government whose leaders are testing the choppy waters of growth-impact fees.
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Santa Barbara County is facing bills for security and related costs for Michael Jackson's trial that could soar to as much as &#36;40,000 a day.
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The ruling could cost insurers billions of dollars more than the $41 billion they have already paid to storm victims.
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It is unusual to see an intra-governmental dispute about a case before the Supreme Court, but it has become an annual event for the Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust division of the Justice Department.
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Several of the largest health care providers in the county have sued the Sheriff&#39;s Department, claiming they have been shortchanged by at least $1.2 million over the past 15 months for medical care given to sick jail inmates.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--The cost of buying land to create parks, protect drinking water and preserve open space has increased nearly 300 percent in 10 years, say groups seeking additional state spending on land and water conservation.
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Frustrated by federal inaction, state and local governments are passing laws at a record pace.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The price tag for fixing the aging, earthen dike around Lake Okeechobee has nearly tripled since last year because of rising construction costs and a lack of skilled labor, the Army Corps of Engineers said.
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By Wayne Risher risher@desotoappealcom  Residents of a lakefront community in south DeSoto County are steamed about a Memphis company's bid to operate an asphalt plant nearby.  Paving company APAC Tennessee is scheduled to take its case to the Board of Supervisors Jan.
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Oklahoma spent a state record  $4.3 million for the defense of Oklahoma City bombing  conspirator Terry Nichols, even though his murder conviction  did not change his prison status, officials said on Thursday.
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By Jim Wagner, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 13--I'd been out of town for nine days -- and the first headline I read in The Log Sunday evening was this: "Landowners: Taxes will destroy Destin."  I'm hearing that more and more.