While low pay and many systemic issues remain, Inspector General Isabel Cumming’s new report finds “substantial difference and visible progress in DPW’s preparation for extreme heat.” ...

The chaotic gunfight made headlines in 2021, but resulted in only one serious injury, whose cost is now coming due.

Klausmeier admits defeat, says she will not advance a new nominee and Kelly Madigan will remain the county’s corruption watchdog.

Latest flash point in the inspector general saga – the $218,000-a-year salary the Klausmeier administration is offering its IG nominee.

The administration’s campaign to defang the county’s “waste and fraud” watchdog will come to a head tonight when the Council votes on whether to approve Kathy Klausmeier’s pick for inspector general.

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The railroad had complained about the cost of an earlier version of the permit, which called for fully enclosing the coal pile to protect the community from blowing dust ...

(For readability I have boldfaced a couple of MTA’s key points. –Fern Shen) Brew: Why are these buses so crowded and late and the # of them assigned to the 13 route apparently quite inadequate?