This week’s issue · 9 min read
A city contract nobody read, and the one page that mattered
Forty thousand dollars a month for a service nobody could name. I pulled the contract, read it twice and found the one page that explained it. The vendor was paid on invoices the city never checked. For three weeks I followed the paper from a council agenda to a basement archive, and then asked who signed off. This week I go through the records line by line, show you how to find the same pages in your own city, and explain what the official answer left out. Plus: your letters about records offices, and the request that came back with every line blacked out.
