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I-Team: Watching Your Tax Dollars

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Former Miami Co. maintenance director sentenced to prison

Miami County’s former maintenance director was given a year in prison Monday on theft in office charges the same day new charges were brought against a county vendor and a slew of concerns were made public about millions of dollars of no-bid contracts awarded by the county. The way the ...

State paid for worker’s home heating

State watchdogs are questioning why the Ohio Department of Natural Resources provides purchasing cards to nearly a third of its 1,850 employees after they found one worker using such cards to pay for his home heating for more than a decade. The Ohio Inspector General’s report issued last week calls ...

Ohio public pay called too generous

State employees in Ohio receive $9.89 per hour more in wages and benefits than their private-sector counterparts, according to a report released Thursday by a conservative watchdog group. This disparity is larger than in 44 other states, according to the report from Washington D.C.-based Citizens Against Government Waste. It gives ...

The Hills, Roy and Terry of 24 South Findlay St. Dayton are disabled and have been living off of the Ohio Works First (welfare) program for the past three years but have just exhausted their benefits. (Although life is very difficult for them now, the home is decorated for Halloween, and the play of words in the background seemed appropriate for their situation). Staff photo by Jim Witmer

Welfare costs fall 20 percent across Ohio

Tens of thousands of Ohioans have left the welfare rolls this year, saving taxpayers millions of dollars each month and putting enrollment at its lowest point since the benefit for the poor was reformed in the 1990s. A Dayton Daily News analysis found that area counties are mirroring this trend. ...

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