Liberty
Lefty grant-making group got $37M from Biden in 2024
Becky Noble writes for RedState.com about a misuse of taxpayer funding in the last year of the Biden administration. [N]ow we are learning more about how little regard the Biden…
Government grant
Liberty
Another Biden Administration Link to Free Crack Pipes
Patrick Hauf of the Washington Free Beacon details some disturbing news about the Biden administration’s drug treatment policies. Two Maine organizations slated to receive funding from a controversial Biden administration…
Liberty
Yes, Biden Administration Really Did Fund Free Crack Pipes
Patrick Hauf of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the disturbing results of a new investigation. Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising…
Elections & Public Integrity
Taxpayers may have paid twice for one guy’s climate alarmism
Lachlan Markay reports for the Washington Free Beacon on a congressional probe of one high-profile climate alarmist. A government-employed scientist calling for a racketeering investigation into climate skeptics may have…
Liberty
Trudy Wade delivers the HP ‘gathering space’ cash
N&O reports the state House of Representatives will send a total of $1.25 million to 13 towns for downtown revitalization, while in a separate Senate allocation Sen. Trudy Wade “will…
Liberty
So Rich and Yet So Poor
The federal government has granted $17,911 to Haywood County to expand the capacity of high-need areas. Funds come from FEMA, but the only disaster out there is the economy. Agencies…
Liberty
Burning a Hole in the Pocket
The City of Asheville is advertising for applicants for Community Development and Housing Trust funds. Implicit are the notions that (1) the affordable housing crisis isn’t bad enough for government…
Elections & Public Integrity
New at CJ Online: USDA blocks access to Hagan grant file
In Don Carrington’s latest update on the taxpayer-funded grants flowing to companies owned by Sen. Kay Hagan’s family, he reports that the US Department of Agriculture in Raleigh has referred…
Liberty
Oozing Cash While Poor
Local governments are struggling because the legislature doesn’t have enough money. It’s going to cut this, that, or the other thing; and until it makes up its mind, everybody is…
Liberty
Good Move
Stanley Furniture will be closing its Robbinsville plant. Jobs will be destroyed. Stanley spokespeople argue the company could not make the plant turn sufficient profit fast enough to spare the…
Liberty
Watch out for Economic Exponentiators!
I am rolling in jobs over here and looking out at the beautiful city of streets paved with economic multipliers. And so, it is with tremendous joy that I announce…
Liberty
Not Too Shabby
The Town of Columbus reported a fund balance of approximately 60% of its general fund expenditures. It was achieved with overbudget revenues and underbudget expenditures. They also retired some debt.…