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Stacks of printed budget documents on a legislative desk

Politics

Who decides, who pays, and what the paperwork says once the announcement is over.

Analysis

The budget nobody read

Camborne's annual spending bill passed by a wide margin. Forty-seven late amendments, added in a single overnight session, changed more than the headline appropriation figure suggested.

  1. Procurement season

    Brackwell's city government spends close to nine million a year on software contracts. Three vendors have won the overwhelming majority of them since 2019.

  2. Field Note

    Two words in the statute

    A Camborne labour law meant to guarantee overtime pay turned on the phrase "regularly scheduled." This spring a court had to decide what that meant.

Arun Pelletier / Halftone

4 stories · June – September · Page 1 of 1

  1. The map they redrew

    Camborne's independent redistricting commission spent four months redrawing legislative boundaries. Its public criterion for a fair map turned out to be harder to apply than to state.

    By Rafael Viana and Linnea Holm · 2 min