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Chicago and Cook County, Illinois spent millions of dollars on property tax collection software that doesn't work.
A theater in downtown Denver defaulted on a six-figure taxpayer-guaranteed loan without opening for a single show - and failed to pay rent.
The New York City Transit Authority, instead of separating recyclables from non-recyclable trash, is comingling it instead.
City officials in Cary, North Carolina, spent lavishly on some bizarre entertainments and high-end accommodations.
Oakland, California spent two million dollars in 2024 to cite people for illegal trash dumping, but collected only sixteen thousand dollars.
A certain woman in Austin, Texas held two jobs, one each with the city and state, with overlapping hours, and never told anyone.
A town manager became the most highly paid public employee in his town's history, and all of it through criminal embezzlement.
Baltimore City Community College lost track of twenty million dollars in inventory, in addition to paying non-existent students.
Grants Pass, Oregon, in 2012, insisted on artistic bus stops, and applied for a federal grant - and the grant process made them cost more.
The San Francisco Zoo suffers chronic mismanagement with employees hiring their own relatives as contractors.
