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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.
The New York City Public School system is literally renting some of its schools - and some of those remain vacant.
The US population showed gains, but mainly in mid-sized cities, not in traditional urban cores, as the economy decentralizes.
Mayor Erin Stewart of New Britain, Connecticut, is under investigation for using a city credit card for personal expenses.
