The Los Angeles Controller's checkbook — nearly every payment the City clears, posted with about a two-week lag. Not a live wire, but close. Below: what's gone out the door in the most recent fiscal year on the books, the month-by-month pulse, who's getting paid, and a searchable ledger of every vendor payment.
Current fiscal year · outside vendors only
The same current-year spending, three ways — by department, by vendor, and by category.
Top 15 departments this fiscal year · outside vendors only
Every checkbook payment by fiscal year — all payment types included, so totals run higher than the fiduciary-excluded figures above.