Federal investigators are looking into allegations that Commonwealth Edison hired multiple politically connected employees and consultants in exchange for favorable government actions, including electricity rate increases, WBEZ has learned.

In a surprise move, Anne Pramaggiore, one of the most high-profile businesswomen in Chicago, has retired from Exelon effective immediately.

We don't even know the name yet. The feds have staged high-profile raids on public offices, indicted a sitting alderman and a state senator, subpoenaed Commonwealth Edison and grabbed boxes and laptops from suburban town halls.

For the last 20 years, Petaluma has held the dubious distinction of having the worst roads in the entire Bay Area. The most recent report by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission ranked the city’s Pavement Condition Index a dismal “Poor/Failed.” Today, only Larkspur has worse roads than Petaluma.

A proposal to consolidate the state’s 649 police and fire pension funds won't solve the state’s pension funding problems, a taxpayer advocacy group said Wednesday.

Tax Break Tracker is the first national search engine for tax abatement disclosures per Statement No.77 of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for governmental entities - set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). For more information about this new accounting rule, visit our GASB-77 resources page.

The American Revolution was sparked in part by unjust taxation. After all, the colonists in Boston rebelled against Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and summarily tossed English tea into the harbor in protest in 1773.

You hear it all the time: companies touting employees as “their most valuable assets.” But under current accounting standards, that is simply false. By definition, employees are not assets since companies do not have control over them.

The passing of Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) marks a tremendous loss for the whistleblower community.