The City of Baltimore can't find a new dealer for their leased vehicle fleet, after a city employee "mistakenly" canceled an advertisement.
The Grateful Dead took a $615,000 federal grant to establish a "free" museum at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Ohio has spent $386 million to renovate its State Fairgrounds for an event that brings in onlyh $12 million in revenue at the gate.
New York City paid $1.7 million to keep empty hotel rooms in reserve against a migrant surge - which was an overcharge to boot.
Intel took an $8.5 billion grant and ran, laying of 15,000 workers (15 percent of its workforce) regardless of the grant.
Colorado has many oil wells that are not profitable enough to cover costs of cleanup and final decommissioning.
Shreveport, Louisiana cleaned mold and mildew from a building - an abandoned housing project - then demolished it anyway.
The U.S. Army paid Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson $11 million without realizing a single new enlistment and arguably lost enlistments.
Six thousand Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees - five percent of the agancy's workforce - owe $50 million in unpaid taxes.
Santa Clara County will buy 48 new rail cars - that they can't use until 2037 because they don't have a track to run on.