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LONG BEACH >> Casting it as a way to give more back to their communities, the City Council voted Tuesday to triple the money it can collect in special spending accounts previously limited by voters.

In June, Oakland’s City Council approved a big change to the rules governing how they’re allowed to raise money for their officeholder accounts. Officeholder accounts are special bank accounts that ...

The expenses were as disparate as annual dues to an antique car club, a tuxedo and paying your own son to shovel the snow. The year was 1990, and the Michigan legislators were going about their ...

OKLAHOMA — The Oklahoma Ethics Commission said campaign funds can be used for reasonable officeholder security expenses in a draft advisory opinion. The commission says security expenses must address ...

Long Beach City Council is poised to triple the amount of political donations that elected city officials can raise. It should rethink its course. The so-called officeholder accounts are little more ...

Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is running for mayor, has spent tens of thousands of dollars from his officeholder account on trips to Hawaii, Italy and elsewhere for his family since he ...