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Perkasie council cuts budget to avoid 59% electric rate hike
Special to The Morning CallAn electric rate increase of nearly 60 percent looms ahead for Perkasie residents, but on Monday night Borough Council began making moves to reduce the hike by making cuts in the budget. After nearly three hours of discussion, council found about $200,...Tags: Public Holidays, Electricity Production and Distribution, Real Estate Agents, Contracts
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West Hartford Council Debates Extent Of Cuts
The town council's six Democrats say up to $600,000 can be cut from the budget immediately without affecting schools, police and other critical services, while two of the three Republicans said $3.3 million could be slashed with no effect on the classroom...Tags: West Hartford, National Government, Safety of Citizens, Government, Elementary Schools
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APNewsBreak: NJ GOP proposes sales tax holiday
Associated Press WriterNew Jersey Republicans are calling for an unprecedented five-week sales tax holiday to stimulate the state's economy. The proposal would cut the sales tax in half _ to 3.5 percent _ during the busiest retail buying season, Thanksgiving through Jan. 4....Tags: Meet the Press, Economic Policy, National Government, Government, State Budgets
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Culver: flailing economy drains state governments
Associated Press WriterGov. Chet Culver told congressional leaders on Monday that the flailing economy has drained $54 billion from the coffers of state governments, sending at least 29 states into a deficit this year. Culver was in Washington to deliver a message from the...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Health Insurance, State Budgets, Government, Executive Branch
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Pakistanis worry they're at risk in global crisis
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTake a restive, nuclear-armed nation with an untested new government, an escalating Islamic insurgency, long-standing tensions with its neighbors and an economy in free fall for months. Then add in a global financial crisis. Some analysts and diplomats...Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Government Debt, Civil Unrest, Terrorism, Assault
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Europe puts $2.3 trillion, far more than US, on the line for banks and stocks soar
Associated Press WritersPARIS (AP) _ Europe put $2.3 trillion on the line Monday to protect the continent's banks, a figure that dwarfs the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue program, in its most unified response yet to the global financial crisis after a stumbling start....Tags: Financial Markets, Nicolas Sarkozy, Foreign Exchange Market, State Budgets, Economic Indicator
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USOC delays '09 budget, citing economic crisis
The economic crisis has forced the U.S. Olympic Committee to delay setting next year's budget while officers consider contingency plans that could include administrative cuts. In the USOC's first board meeting since the Beijing Games, in Orlando, Fla.,...Tags: Edmonton Oilers, Michelle Kwan, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche, Steve Ralston
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Slots Q&A: Frederick W. Puddester, slots proponent
Baltimore Sun reporterFrederick W. Puddester is chairman of For Maryland For Our Future, a pro-slots ballot committee. Puddester was state budget secretary under former Gov. Parris N. Glendening, and is an associate dean for finance and administration at the Johns Hopkins...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, State Budgets, Government Debt, Constitutional Issues, Regional Authority
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Community colleges expect cuts
Maryland's community colleges are bracing for budget cuts from state and county governments, and educators are worried that tuitions might rise at a time when deteriorating economic conditions are driving more students to the traditionally affordable two-...Tags: Martin O'Malley, National Government, Towson University, Government, Executive Branch
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Cuts across the board
Harford County Executive David R. Craig has asked department directors to trim this year's budget to address a nearly $7 million shortfall in its $900 million fiscal year 2009 budget. Each agency must cut five percent from its operating costs. Craig used...Tags: State Budgets, Personal Income, Housing Industry, Unemployment, Local Authority
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Operating on the budget
As the economy and tax revenues continue to fall, the time for trimming is at hand. Government cost-cutting can be deft, even helpful, surgery that leaves a fiscally challenged budget hardly feeling a thing. Or it can be butchery where a spending plan...Tags: Local Authority, Martin O'Malley, William Donald Schaefer, Government, State Budgets
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Florida's constitutional amendments: What they propose
Sentinel Staff WriterFlorida's registered voters have the opportunity to vote on six amendments to the state's constitution. Much of the actual language on the ballot about each amendment can be very confusing. Hopefully this will make the issues easier to understand....Tags: Property, Teachers Unions, Alternative Energy, Freedom of Religion, Energy Saving
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