I-Team Waste Watch: Resolutions
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Congress has passed nearly 180 concurrent resolutions over the last year.It's a legislative measure that carries no weight of law and does not require the President's signature.Many...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Kalamazoo Buses
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Two months ago, the Newschannel 3 I-Team took a close look at evening bus service in Grand Rapids.Last year, taxpayers in the metro Grand Rapids area decided to pay...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Secretary of State computers
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The Newschannel 3 I-Team is on Waste Watch tonight, looking into the state's paying millions of dollars for a new computer system that critics say just doesn't work right.In fact, the...
View ArticleWaste Watch: White House's Online Presence
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - We continue our Waste Watch series with a closer look at President Obama's online presence.Critics say the President is mixing so-called propaganda with official business in his...
View ArticleWaste Watch: McCotter's Resignation
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A number of ugly words are being used to describe the petition scandal apparently caused by a lack of oversight in the office of former Congressman Thad McCotter.Allegedly he not only...
View ArticleWaste Watch: Homer Stryker Field
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Kalamazoo's Frontier League baseball team, the Kings, folded before the 2011 season.As a result, Homer Stryker Field hasn't had a major tenant since then, and hasn't...
View ArticleWaste Watch: Coburn's Crusade
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent in a variety of ways by the U.S. Government, both positively and wastefully, but will the country's financial future tip the scales in...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Sewer project frustrating Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A sewer project at Riverside Drive and I-94 has people who drive and work in the area frustrated because for weeks they haven't seen anyone working there.The...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Bridge Cards
GRANDVILLE, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Law enforcement and state investigators have been targeting stores that sell to Bridge Card holders illegally.But now one lawmaker wants to go even farther.In most...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Wastebook 2012
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - From caviar to mechanical squirrels, a U.S. Senator has come out with the 2012 edition of what he calls Wastebook.As Joe Griffin reports, it details how the federal government is...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: A123 Systems
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Around two years ago, Holland broke ground on a plant to make electric batteries.President Obama reminded everyone the plant wouldn't be possible without $151 million in federal...
View ArticleWaste Watch preview: Rapid investigation
KENT COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - As we near Election Day the Newschannel 3 I-Team is on Waste Watch. Wednesday night at 5:00 p.m. we will show the results of a six-month long follow-up...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: New info on The Rapid
WALKER, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The Newschannel 3 I-Team took a second look at the Rapid bus system in Kent County after we uncovered new information that could influence people before they vote on...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch - Wyoming Fire Station
WYOMING, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - $20,000 in the past year--records show that's how much taxpayers in Wyoming spent to maintain the Gezon Parkway Fire Station.For their money, they got a collapsed...
View ArticleCracking down on Bridge Card fraud
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - For the first time the state is devoting new resources to finding Bridge Card fraud and newly released numbers show it is finally paying off.The Newschannel 3...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Cops at Capitol for protests
LANSING, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - They were everywhere you looked on the capitol grounds during last months Right To Work protests, Michigan State Police troopers, keeping the peace.MSP says it brought...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Grant Giveaway
WYOMING, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - In November, the Newschannel 3 I-Team took a close look at the Wyoming Fire Department after an independent report blasted the city's manager for closing fire stations...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: Extra taxes for the jail
ALLEGAN, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - From cement blocks to wiring and wood, Allegan County taxpayers are picking up the tab for their new jail.Representative Bob Genetski sponsored a bill to exempt...
View ArticleI-Team Waste Watch: The IRS
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The Waste Watch team has taken aim at the IRS.The agency holds Americans responsible for their tax dollars, but a new audit shows the agency sometimes spends some of those dollars on...
View ArticleAssistance Totals: Single Mom of two making $19,000
Department of Welfare- LIHEAP: $400- Child Care: $14,976- Medical Assistance: $6,045 (includes Health Department and SCHIP)- Food $6,028 (SNAP, WIC: average $52.32 per person, school meal programs,...
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