Jeremy Portnoy
Journalist at OpenTheBooks
Investigative journalist @Open_The_Books | “Waste of the Day” @RCinvestigates
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1 week ago |
wfmz.com | Jeremy Portnoy
Topline: There are only 10 members of Nebraska’s Wheat Board, but the committee still managed to spend almost $17,000 on meals from January 2023 to February 2025, according to a new report from the state auditor. Key facts: The Wheat Board is part of the state’s Department of Agriculture and is funded by a 0.5% excise tax on wheat sold in Nebraska.
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1 week ago |
theohiopressnetwork.com | Jeremy Portnoy
Topline: There are only 10 members of Nebraska’s Wheat Board, but the committee still managed to spend almost $17,000 on meals from January 2023 to February 2025, according to a new report from the state auditor. Key facts: The Wheat Board is part of the state’s Department of Agriculture and is funded by a 0.5% excise tax on wheat sold in Nebraska.
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1 week ago |
fairfieldsuntimes.com | Jeremy Portnoy
Topline: President Donald Trump is often in the headlines for the millions of dollars taxpayers spend to fund his golf trips, but he’s far from the only one enjoying the expensive hobby. The Department of Defense owns scores of golf courses all over the world and recently spent $200 million to renovate five of them, according to reporting from The Intercept. Two courses in Germany and one each in Korea, Japan, and Massachusetts will receive upgrades.
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2 weeks ago |
theepochtimes.com | Bob Ivry |Jeremy Portnoy
News AnalysisLike the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have refused to conduct or failed to complete every internal financial audit since Congress first demanded such accountability in the 1990s. The Department of Defense owns over 70 percent of the nation’s assets and can’t account for half of them.
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2 weeks ago |
conservativefiringline.com | Jeremy Portnoy
Topline: California’s high-speed rail line has more than tripled in price from $40 billion to $128 billion, causing President Donald Trump to rescind $4 billion in federal funding and claim the project has “the worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country,” The Washington Free Beacon quoted him as saying. It’s easy to see why.
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