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The nonprofit Citizens Against Government Waste has published a collection of pork barrel spending every year since 1991. The book features lawmakers from both sides who the authors say are ...
The non-profit group Citizens Against Government Waste has published a collection of pork-barrel spending every year since ...
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 ...
The people elected to run Alabama’s largest county haven’t been getting the receipts from their favorite nonprofits and local projects.
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 ...