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Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation:
Arpaio is widely known for tough jail policies and pushing the bounds on local immigration efforts. He has led a dozen crime and immigration sweeps, some in heavily Latino areas.

Ariz. Sheriff Investigated by Federal Grand Jury – Local News | News Articles | National [...]

The budget that the County Commission is poised to approve on Tuesday is not the same budget about which the county held public hearings last year. It also appears that Chairman Charles Bannister plans to exact a little political payback on a fellow Commissioner, but it will be the residents of Commission District 3 who [...]

Last week, the Atlanta Regional Commission broke with tradition to reject Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charles Bannister’s bid to become the ARC Chairman. Now, we know what the elected leaders of metro Atlanta think of our top elected official.
Even though the ARC also includes citizen members and city mayors, the Chairmen of the 10 metro counties [...]

Joseph Henchman of the Tax Foundation is criticizing a report on the money woes of ten states by the Pew Center. His assessment of California’s problems could apply, in principle, to Gwinnett’s situation:
A big cause of California’s budget crisis was spending commitments derived from overreliance on volatile revenue sources, particularly taxes on high-income earners, [...]

Gwinnett Buzz takes on the City of Lawrenceville, expressing very legitimate complaints about the city’s monopoly natural gas service. I, too, have wondered why the city charges a $3 “convenience” fee for online payments when the service arguably saves the government money:
Aside from the fact that government has a spotty track record for customer-friendly [...]

Regarding taxes, government should operate according to the following principles:

Government should be limited to only those services that the people cannot provide for themselves, either individually or through the private sector;
Government should provide those services in the most efficient and economical way possible;
Government should take advantage of every opportunity to fund those [...]