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California’s move to abandon a plan revamping the state’s antiquated 911 system, after spending hundreds of millions on the project, has critics fuming.... But after spending around $450 million to build out the system, Cal OES halted the project last year due to “operational difficulties,” citing issues with the regional approach and stating it would pivot back toward the statewide approach.... Several of the four technology companies the state originally contracted with to develop the regional 911 system have accused officials of failing to effectively manage taxpayer dollars. Redesigning and installing the new statewide technology cost “hundreds of millions ......

The Washington, D.C., nonprofit, is running advertisements on Facebook soliciting donations to "disrupt Trump’s deportation machine" and to "stop Trump’s deportation dystopia." Another ad says "See you in court, Trump," a reference to a lawsuit that the Amica Center has filed to block President Donald Trump’s executive order, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion," which paused funding for several Justice Department programs that provide legal services for illegal aliens... In a lawsuit filed on Jan. 31, the Amica Center and several other pro-immigration groups say that Trump’s spending freeze "will have immediate, devastating, and irreparable effects" on their operations. According...

Obama gave taxpayer money to jarring ‘dog-fighting pitbulls’ art exhibit and even libs are horrifiedAmerican taxpayers are often shocked to discover the strange places their money goes. One of the inevitable issues with big government is that public money is spent on the pet causes of whoever is in power–and citizens rarely find out about it. In a jarring case of wasteful Obama-era spending that even liberals are criticizing, the federal government gave $300,000 to a “modern art” exhibit in New York’s Guggenheim museum that features eight aggressive pit bulls strapped down to wooden tread mills facing each other....

It seems an unlikely holiday destination for a First Lady, but the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella will be the setting for Michelle Obama's summer break. More commonly associated with reality television stars and gangsters, Mrs Obama and her youngest daughter Sasha have booked 30 rooms at the Villa Padierna, one of Spain's most exclusive hotels, in the Andalusion resort. But the booking is likely to raise questions over use of taxpayer's money as an entourage of secret service agents will protect Mrs Obama and her nine-year-old daughter. Prices at the Villa Padierna - a golf and spa resort...

Well, well, well. About those leased cars that congressionals push off onto us taxpayers -- I've been doing a little looking up and found some very interesting tidbits. For instance, Jesse Jackson, Jr. leases (at taxpayers expense) a Ford Expedition for $1,161 a month. Bobby Rush likes his Lincoln Navigator that costs $746 a month. And John Shimkus has a Jeep Commander that costs $627/month. But then there's Dan Lipinski (D-Ill). Lipinski pays for his own vehicle. He says charging taxpayers raises too many questions. You can see more on the list. Not all the congressionals fleece us taxpayers by...

The joke's on us Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Thursday, January 11, 2007 I caught the opening episode of CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie Tuesday night. It wasn't quite as bad as I'd anticipated. That is to say, it's awful, but at least my worst fears were not realized: Thanks be to Allah, there are no Jews in this sitcom. So I was spared my fantasized plot thread of a young Muslim boy and a young Jewish boy -- the son of the local rabbi, of course -- who find some quarrel in a straw, but then, through...

In little more than two weeks, an academic committee headed by CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano will issue a report on whether Professor Ward Churchill's "conduct, including his speech, provide any grounds for dismissal for cause, as described in the Regents' laws." It may be the most important document they've prepared in their lives. What's at stake, potentially, is not only the professional fate of Churchill. Hanging in the balance is also the university's interpretation of academic tenure itself. Does tenure shield professors from discipline for any speech, no matter how menacing; from any written claims, no matter how false; from...