California Capitol Annex project leaders won’t say how much it costs taxpayers

Two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the California Legislature’s lack of transparency with the California Capitol Annex Project and said he would help with the issue, the project’s leaders are still refusing to say how much it’s estimated to cost taxpayers. It has been at least three years since the Legislature’s Joint Rules Committee […]

In California, cost of undocumented healthcare is $3B over estimates

Gov. JB Pritzker proposed a $330-million budget cut last month to scale back an expansion of healthcare coverage for undocumented adult immigrants in Illinois, where a state audit found that services for certain age groups exceeded cost estimates by more than 280%. California Democrats are facing the same financial pressure to reduce coverage during a […]

Drivers were promised a ‘long-lasting’ makeover of the Kennedy Bridge. It didn’t happen. | In-depth

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — In early 2015, then-Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced a $22 million investment in the Kennedy Bridge as a “more complete and long-lasting overhaul” of the aging span between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana. The work was a bonus to construction underway on the Interstate 65 crossing as part of the Ohio River […]