Company Privatization

Unlike many neighboring cities that have been scraping the bottom of the barrel to get by financially, Fountain Valley ended last year with a surplus and is on track to finish this year in the black as well. The city ended last year with a $1.3-...

Editor's note: This corrects the name of the agency that placed Sunset Beach under Huntington Beach's sphere of influence. The Huntington Beach City Council plans to decide Monday whether to annex Sunset Beach, even though the small beach community...

Washington is in the final phase of preparations to completely exit the liquor-selling business and allow private registers begin ringing up booze statewide. In accordance with voter-approved I-1183, state liquor sales will be privatized a week from...

WASHINGTON — In the decade since U.S. Rep. John Mica helped create the Transportation Security Administration, the veteran Republican has gone from reluctant father to outright critic. Few areas of TSA have dodged Mica's scorn; he has attacked the...

The community of Mesa del Mar, located between the Orange County Fairgrounds and Baker Street in Costa Mesa, has been a great place to live for many years, 34 in my case. I've raised three sons here and spent many idyllic hours with my grandson, age 5...

Baltimore's Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Square is one of the city's most recognizable landmarks, a classical Doric column towering 178 feet above its elegant surroundings. But nearly 200 years after its completion in 1829, the building and its...

A Senate Joint Resolution introduced by state Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, which would affirm Legislature support for a private-public partnership to renovate and expand the Calexico West Port of Entry, got the backing Tuesday of the Imperial County...

Covered wagon rides are coming to Virginia's Explore Park this summer, as leaders of the park look for more public- private partnerships. Spiritriders Covered Wagon Rides will hitch up a team of mules beginning Memorial Day weekend.  Wagon rides will...

The Costa Mesa City Council will consider Tuesday whether to outsource five city services, more than a year since the wheels were first set in motion amid furious protests from city workers and local activists. City staff are recommending Costa Mesa...

Business Facilities magazine honored the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance with its first Achievement in Public-Private Partnership Award for its innovation such as the formation of its CEO Council of community and industry leaders. The award also...

When I first heard that Broward Commissioner Chip LaMarca wanted to take a second job with a startup firm that seeks to outsource government jobs as "director of business development" and that he asked the state ethics commission about whether he could...

When it comes to "Right on Crime," Gov. Rick Scott is, well, wrong. The "Right on Crime" program is a public policy initiative spawned by political conservatives in Texas trying to rein in their own big-government monster in over-the-top prison expenses....