Michael Bastasch offers federal taxpayers some disturbing news in a Daily Caller report. The Department of Energy spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a radioactive waste treatment plant…
Megan McArdle explains for Bloomberg Businessweek readers why it’s helpful for organizations of all types to listen to dissenting views about their grandiose schemes. Last March, Rocky King, executive director…
The recently released audit about the state’s IT division showed a troubling pattern of projects going over budget and taking much longer to complete than estimated. But this Triangle Business…
Carolina Journal’s Barry Smith reports here on an audit of North Carolina’s IT division released by State Auditor Beth Wood. In short: myriad problems. A new report from State Auditor…
Seven years and about $1 billion later, the Air Force has abandoned a logistics management system that was, as the Federal Times puts it in their headline: a dud. CSC was…
Earlier today, a lively impromptu discussion broke out among stakeholders in the ongoing saga of Pack Square Park. In 1999, a leaking fountain in front of city hall somehow exploded into…
Following the shining examples set by the Randy Parton Theatre and the Advanced Vehicle Research Center (both in or near Roanoke Rapids) of ditching the dreamers behind the projects, the…
Remember when everything wrong with the South Blvd. line was the fault of Parsons Transportation Group? That was the company responsible for the initial design and management of the project…
Gee, things sure have been quiet lately regarding progress on the South Blvd. light rail line. In fact since City Manager-Until-June Pam Syfert promised in October she’d receive weekly updates…
While we’re on the subject of MWBE programs, The Chalkboard reports that GCS is continues to march down that road on a project the system has already botched. GCS plans…
I’m willing to wipe the slate clean for the $41 million Uptown library and see what happens from here on out. But little things keep popping up that make me…