The California Inspector General's office says a contractor hired to weatherize homes, and paid for by federal stimulus funds, overbilled the state agency overseeing the money by $34,803, Timothy Sandoval of CaliforniaWatch reports. The report also notes that workers and supervisors performing weatherization renovations on homes have not been adequately trained,

As Ian Talley and Stephen Power report in the Wall Street Journal, the Energy Department has expended only 7% of stimulus funds the Department received in 2008 -- funds that are supposed to go to job creation and innovative energy projects.  The tension at Energy is between vetting proposals ...

Most coverage of General Motors' future has focused on the Obama administration's 60 percent ownership of a post-bankruptcy GM. But the United Autoworkers, which represents almost all GM workers, will own 18 percent of the company through their retiree health fund. And UAW gets 55 percent of Chrysler. With the ...

Things are going to get worse before they get better.  And that applies to the news we're getting from reporters around the country, too.  But the quality of that reporting -- and the story it tells about public officials who bury the truth about their mistakes and misteps -- is ...

You've heard about the Army's rising and falling success rates in getting new recruits.  You've heard about the suicides of soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.  But one thing you might not know about our all-volunteer army is the stress and strain it puts on the Army's own professional ...

Our new Government in My Back Yard venture will spotlight similar problems in government across the country -- and see whether they can be solved using tools already tried in the next city, county, or state.  The Washington Post's Dan Morse and Ann Marimow have uncovered a definite ...

Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn, known as "Dr. No" for opposing basically every non-military spending bill, has used the long Congressional recess to find a new foe -- the 2.5 million federal employees. The Washington Post's Christopher Lee reports that Coburn's office has ...

The New York Times’ Michael Brick does some journalistic assisted suicide, letting the U.S. military hangs itself through professing love for Ultimate Fighting Championship. U.F.C. is a pro league of mixed martial art and jujitsu fighting, what John McCain once called “human cockfighting.”

Now it’s all ...

It’s Public Service Recognition Week and the Council for Excellence in Government has kicked off the festivities with a survey about the federal bureaucracy. In a poll of 18-to-29-year-olds, apparently also known as millennials, the survey found out that if asked by a parent, teacher, or new president of ...

A team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal has investigated the massive explosion at the Imperial Sugar Co. refinery in Georgia and concluded that a lack of local government inspections, attention from the plants' owners, and federal government oversight combined to create the fireball that ignited on Feb. 7, 2008.  The problem, as Paulo Prada, Betsy McKay and Stephanie Chen write, was "all because of dust."