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In life and leadership, accountability means consequences for bad behavior. In Washington, accountability means yet another congressional meeting about another government scandal perpetrated by tax-subsidized corruptocrats who get away with murder. Literally. This week, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held the 999,999th oversight hearing (give or take a few) on the VA’s homicidal, no-fault culture. “In the wake of the biggest scandal in VA history, in which 110 VA medical facilities maintained secret lists to hide long waits for care,” the panel notes, “the department has successfully fired just three low-level employees for manipulating wait times. Not a single...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — On its first official day in bankruptcy, the city of Stockton now must grapple with the hard part of reorganizing its financial affairs — how to share the financial burden equitably among creditors while meeting its massive state pension obligations. At the conclusion of a three-day trial, a judge on Monday formally granted the city Chapter 9 protection, over the objections of creditors who questioned whether it was fair for the city to fully meet its obligations to the state pension system while other debt holders go partly paid. The issue — whether federal bankruptcy law...

Second Trustee Says Vector Board Tax Increase Not Justified. Team DLN 08.JUN.07 Thursday, June 07, 2007 Palm Springs trustee to the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control Board, Sharon Lock, says a tax increase set to be voted on by Vector Board trustees this coming Tuesday is not needed. She is the second trustee of that agency to come out against the tax increase. “I voted no against the budget. I thought it was an inflated budget. That budget is what they based the tax increase on,” said Lock. “I feel that a vote in favor (of the tax increase)...