A government grantee spent nearly a million dollars in 2011 to produce an internet soap opera to attract low-income families.
The Cumberland County (North Carolina) commissioners voted to cancel an event center, but only after having already spent $36 million.
Medicare is providing "low-value treatments," also known as bad or at least wasteful medicine, to 37 percent of its patients.
American embassies have been doubling as art galleries, at tremendous expense in acquisition, leasing, and insurance. This should stop.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is vulnerable to fraud, including inventory control and how its mechanics spend their time.
The flood casualties in Texas, might be the fault of the Texas Legislature for paying for raises instead of an upgraded flood warning system.
In 2011, the federal child health and development agency spent millions on television and electricity for seven remote villages in Vietnam.
Los Angeles County pays lifeguards six-figure salaries and benefits, including more than half a million for the chief lifeguard.
Several Federal Reserve buildings in Washington, D.C. will receive a $2.5 billion renovation worthy of King Louis XIV of France.
Los Angeles, in 2011, used a million-dollar grant intended to help the homeless, to renovate space in the city office building