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Palin has mixed record as fiscal conservative
The Associated PressANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, bills herself as a fiscal conservative. But her record is mixed: She increased to historic proportions the annual bonus each Alaskan receives from the government...Tags: Juneau, Government, eBay Incorporated, State Budgets, Public Finance
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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: Economic Policy, Referenda, Casino and Gambling, Tourism and Leisure, Executive Branch
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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: Sheila Dixon, Government, Martin O'Malley, Morgan State University, National Government
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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: Local Authority, State Budgets, Housing Industry, Unemployment, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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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: Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Local Authority, Government, State Budgets
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Connecticut Week In Review: Stocks Drop, Gay Rights Rise
Wall Street was the infernal engine that drove the news in Connecticut last week. At a stultifying debate in Nashville, the presidential candidates blamed one another for failing to recognize warning signs of the greed that has crippled credit markets...Tags: AT&T Corp., Boston Red Sox, Instrument Engineering, American League, Employees
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Wedding Smarts
Of The Morning CallAnnouncing to friends and family that you're engaged, well, there's little that elicits bigger squeals of delight or heartier slaps on the back. Or more sleepless nights worrying about your checking account balance, more fantasies about robbing a bank .....Tags: Family, Public Employees, Government, Marriage, Fogelsville
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Higher state taxes no way to fix budget
As if people needed yet another piece of bad economic news, last week Pennsylvanians got some. Legislative leaders representing both parties are warning about huge gaps in the state budget -- perhaps $1.3 billion this year and $2.5 billion in the 2009-...Tags: Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), State Budgets, Colleges and Universities
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Outlook is dismal for L.A.'s future budgets
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa offered a bleak financial forecast for city government over the next two years on Saturday, warning that deep cuts to services and other belt-tightening measures would be unavoidable because of the worsening economic...Tags: Laura Chick, Contracts, Labor Legislation, Wages and Pensions, State Budgets
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Fast Chat with director Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme has long had one of the most interesting careers in the film business. An Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs"), the 64-year-old Demme has also enjoyed success as a concert filmmaker ("Stop Making Sense"), documentarian ("...Tags: Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme, Neil Young
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Township group asks trustees for lobbying funds
The state association for Indiana's 1008 township trustees is asking them to pass along more of their tax dollars to battle efforts in the General Assembly next year to eliminate township government, a report Saturday said. The Indiana Township...Tags: Local Elections, Local Authority, Government, Heads of State, Lobbying
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Gestures Won't Fix State Budget
Stop worrying, state government will see us through the financial crisis. Confidence chased away the jitters Tuesday when Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that state agencies "are to identify managers on each floor to ensure that internal lights are turned off...Tags: Local Authority, Employees, Government, Kevin Rennie, State Budgets
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