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Pittsburgh has a chronic and severe staffing shortage across all departments, and overtime has become a significant expense.
Of 677 laptops the Federal Reserve bought, none have been used so far, and the Fed’s bureaucracy can’t place them into service yet.
The Oklahoma Route 66 Commission shelled out $110,000 for a musical washboard that plays This Land Is Your Land when run over.
Since 2006 the Forest Service has paid about half a million dollars to send a Smokey Bear hot-air balloon to appear at public events.
Lawyers are raking in exhorbitant fees from ultimately failed defenses of wrongful convictions in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois.
Social Security and Medicare will require $193.6 trillion, even after collection of all payroll taxes, or it will run dry in 2033.
Maryland routinely pays excess overtime with no attempt to monitor who is claiming it without good work-related reason.
William Webster designed a medical marijuana system for Alabama, but no treatment has resulted. Now Alabama hired Webster to defend it.
In 2012 NASA tried to launch a video game for iPads, but it crashed and burned - burning through $1.5 million in the process.
The two senior officials of Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) public schools took an African safari - for professional development!
