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Cost overruns deplete constuction funds

February 16, 2005

Dunstan McNichol of The (Newark) Star-Ledger analyzed data from New Jersey’s School Construction Corporation since 2002, finding that “the six urban projects under the SCC have cost, on average, 45 percent more than 19 schools built without the agency’s oversight during the same period.” One-fifth of the spending is due to massive cost overruns and…

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High pay for civilian contractors

February 15, 2005

Kevin Begos and Phoebe Zerwick of the Winston-Salem Journal used details from federal contracts to contractors in Iraq to calculate a basic labor rate of $350,000 a year for a “liaison officer under the contract that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Charlotte’s Zapata Engineering to help dispose of captured munitions. It’s 10 times…

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FOI investigation finds most comply, but not entirely

February 10, 2005

Mark Chellgren of the Associated Press reported on an investigation led by the Kentucky Press Association and the Associated Press into “whether public offices are allowing citizens to view government documents. The investigation “showed most are obeying the state’s Open Records Act, but compliance is not uniform.” The results were mixed, varying from a smile…

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