The non-profit group Citizens Against Government Waste has published a collection of pork-barrel spending every year since ...

As the saying goes, there are only a few guarantees in life, one of which is that you will forever pay taxes. Americans have ...

I’ve seen pork-barrel spending defended with more determination than some wedding vows. We all claim to want smaller government, lower taxes, and more accountability. But when the "Big But ...

The people elected to run Alabama’s largest county haven’t been getting the receipts from their favorite nonprofits and local ...

Over the past few years, lawmakers themselves have slipped into the state budget hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to local governments and nonprofits — pork-barrel spending, to put it ...

While the so-called pork barrel spending allows lawmakers to bring the bacon home to their districts, a growing backlog of projects and balances of unspent capital outlay expected to exceed $6 ...