Treasury department's inspector general finds

Governments submit inaccurate tax form data, well, less than 1%, but what about the example being set  http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/157205-audit-governments-could-reduce-number-of-incorrect-tax-submissions.  

Warnings of the federal debt and investors

in the muni bond react, or don't as discussed http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/21/us-markets-municipals-idUSTRE73K64120110421

How one of the richest counties is nearly broke

This story as reported by Bloomberg Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225066138557.htm

Will US government bonds be downgraded?

Standard and Poors issued warnings http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sampp-springs-downgrade-warning-on-us-debt-2269709.html     Some question whether S&P has the integrity to make this kind of call   http://www.cnbc.com/id/42650973    Another perspective available in this link http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2011/04/debt_crisis    This ten minute video from the Wall Street Journal has individuals involved in this discussing it

Governors' salaries decline

on average according to Stateline http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=565482  Some of this driven by California, who decreased theirs, and I never Arnold never took a salary for being governor.  Public servants.

Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact releases

data from Census Bureau on State tax collections.  The 2010 data shows a decline in state revenue and reports data by state http://accounting.smartpros.com/x71703.xml

GASB looking at State's pension disclosures

The importance of the discount rate used and expected rate of return to ensure good numbers are used in the disclosures http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/01/us-usa-states-pensions-accounting-idUSTRE7305Z020110401