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Budget comments | An Assembly members take on Anchorage issues
23 hours ago ago from Patrick Flynn's Blog | An Assembly member's take on Anchorage issues
Patrick Flynn s Blog Budget comments Tonight, December 8, the Assembly is about to pass a municipal budget for 2010. I spent a great deal of time on this one and the version that ultimately passed had my name on it, but it wasn't really mine. It has been said that budgets are the ultimate public policy documents. They reflect a community's priorities; what is funded, what isn't and what the citizenry can expect in return ...
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8 hours ago ago from KSKA Public Radio
With less than a million dollars difference in reduced revenues and added expenses, Mayor Dan Sullivan's tight belt municipal operating budget passed the Anchorage Assembly last night. Len Anderson, KSKA Anchorage Download Audio (MP3)
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16 hours ago ago from www.statehousecall.org
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2 hours ago ago from Publicola
At this morning's grim budget press conference in Olympia (the state is facing a $2.6 billion budget shortfall) Gov. Chris Gregoire announced a budget plan that would not only eliminate the state's $340 million Basic Health Plan ( as was rumored ), but eliminate the following programs as well: 1. General Assistance for the Unemployable (GAU) , an $88.5 million program that helps support 30,000 adults who have medical and mental ...
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5 hours ago ago from WashACE Blog
Don Brunell s column today addresses the stark choices required to balance the state budget. Gov. Gregoire rightly points out that each statistic in the statebudget represents a real person. Similarly, each tax and fee hike alsotakes money out of the pockets of a real person — the taxpayer — who isstruggling to get by. The decisions will be gut-wrenching, but these are hard times. At the Washington Policy blog, Jason Mercier notes ...
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12 hours ago ago from Good News Now
OLYMPIA, Wash. -Making her case for tax increases, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday presented a bleak plan to balance the state budget by wiping out spending for health care, welfare, and education programs that reach every corner of Washington. As required by law, Gregoire presented a plan for balancing the state's $2.6 billion budget deficit using only the state's existing tax streams. But in an open letter to Washingtonians, the ...
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19 hours ago ago from FanHouse
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10 hours ago ago from Good News Now
PHOENIX -A tentative agenda Republican leaders are developing for a possible legislative session next week includes asking Arizona voters to temporarily raise the sales tax and give lawmakers more power to change voter-approved laws. Other items at least some GOP legislative leaders are pushing include a relatively small package of spending cuts and future income tax cuts, legislative aides told The Associated Press on Wednesday. All are ...
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1 hour, 26 minutes ago ago from Washington Post - Business
LONDON -- Britain's ruling Labor Party on Wednesday slapped a one-time levy on bankers' bonuses and vowed future spending cuts and tax hikes to tackle the government's biggest budget shortfall since World War II. The measures underscored the extreme pressure faced by nations including Britain and the United States to confront the massive budget deficits created during the financial crisis. With tax revenue plunging and spending to bail out ...
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