TDC Asks Why City Won't Pay $600,000
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 17--If the city of Destin has the money to pay an extra $600,000 for beach restoration, it should do so, members of Okaloosa County's Tourist Development Council say.
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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 Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 14--Fo r 1 1 c i t i e s i n S a n Bernardino County, the prospect of paying a surcharge for a chemical that did not originate in their areas just doesn't seem right.
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Â· Mayor remains defiant after assembly questionsÂ· Agency chief says Jasper email was inappropriate
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The head of the Galveston County Democratic Party is publicly asking local State Representative Larry Taylor to return more than $55,000 he received in campaign contributions from a political action committee after the executive director of the committee
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--BILOXI -- The city's failure to quickly act on a plan to create a park around the Biloxi Lighthouse that would be funded with federal money is centered on a lack of communication between Mayor A.J.
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Only $1 billion of the $77 billion the city is seeking from the Army Corps of Engineers is for infrastructure damages it says it suffered because of levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina. The rest is for such things as the city's tarnished image and tourist industry losses.
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The so-called "living-wage" ordinance that would have required mega-retailers here to pay their workers higher wages was successfully turned back Wednesday as supporters on the City Council could not muster enough votes override Mayor Richard Daley's veto.
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By Andrea Kelly, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 16--The committee that backed the voter-approved Regional Transportation Plan violated election law by not revealing they paid for many of the statements of support in the sample ballot, the Yuma County Attorney's Office found.
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DALLAS TXU Energy has agreed to pay a 530-thousand dollar fine over misleading advertisements about its electric rates. The proposed settlement is with the Public Utility Commission in Austin.
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I'm outraged, but not surprised, that the state is funding the stadium deal for Real Salt Lake. It's typical Utah state government corruption and cronyism. Help the wealthy. I've run a business in Utah for years and have never received a cent.
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The city where a terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center towers has again been stiffed in the distribution of federal anti-terrorism funding, members of the state's congressional delegation complained Saturday.
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By Steve Reilly, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Feb. 6--PUNTA GORDA -- With the city's goal of encouraging more retail  and other commercial growth downtown, the Community Redevelopment Agency board  will decide Wednesday whether the city's "in-lieu-of-parking" fee is too high.
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The District&#39;s $435.2 million proposal for a baseball stadium in Southeast received a hostile reception yesterday from the DC Council during a public hearing that lasted more than 12 hours.
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Bill that would speed rebates of $600 to most taxpayers heads to Senate with bipartisan appeal to senators not to jeopardize bill with changes.
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said today that no deal has been struck to use public funds to build a professional soccer stadium in Southeast Washington. He also said his talks with D.C. United about a partnership do not represent a drastic departure from his stance against public financing of the Nationals...
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.