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22 hours ago ago from Dissecting Leftism Backup

The crooked British Left again Vandals deface town war memorial A Royal British Legion boss says vandals have “dishonoured those who have given their lives for our country” by defacing Burton's war memorial. Roy Whenman, vice-chairman of the town’s Legion branch, received calls from members saying an extremist message had been written on the statue. Having been informed at 9.20am, borough council chiefs had cleaned the graffiti from the ...

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Fitch Affirms Ohio’s Transportation Bond Fund Revs at ‘AA-’

19 hours ago ago from The Springfield 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Springfield, IL

CHICAGO (BUSINESS WIRE) As part of its continuous surveillance effort, Fitch Ratings affirms the AA-' ratings on the outstanding $10.4 million State of Ohio Transportation project revenue bonds, state transportation infrastructure bond fund, series 2006-1 and 2006-2. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The AA-' rating reflects multiple layers of security that provide a high degree of protection against potential loan losses and strong underwriting ...

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8 hours ago ago from The New Arthurian Blog

Slow going for stimulus funds BY CHRIS MCKENNA As construction grinds to a halt for the winter, less than 40 percent of the $47.1 million in federal stimulus money budgeted for road, bridge and sidewalk improvements [in the region] has trudged through bureaucratic obstacles to the contract stage, state Department of Transportation figures show. And only about 10 percent of the money has made it into the economy so far as incremental ...

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Fed Stimulus Rebuilds Rte 146, Boosts Bellingham

1 day ago ago from Commonwealth Conversations: Transportation

Governor Deval Patrick today joined Congressman Richard Neal announcing a total of nearly $23 million in federal stimulus American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for two projects- rebuilding Pulaski Boulevard in Bellingham and 10 miles of nearby Route 146 from Uxbridge to Sutton.  Both roads are important local and busy commuter routes. Bellingham- Pulaski Boulevard The $13 million federal stimulus Bellingham project will ...

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Washington Examiner: Report – Democratic districts received nearly twice the amount of stimulus funds as GOP districts

18 hours ago ago from The Inside Straight

A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs. “You would think that if the stimulus money was actually spent to create jobs, there would be more stimulus money spent in high unemployment states,” said Veronique de Rugy, a scholar at the Mercatus Center who ...

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Juli Charkes: Delay of State Aid a Blow to Schools Already Burdened by Unfunded Mandates

21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Withholding of promised funds, fiscal uncertainty and now a lawsuit from embattled educators? It's not exactly The Most Wonderful Time of Year for school districts across the state of New York. Governor David Paterson's decision earlier this week to withhold some $146 million in state aid to schools -- part of a plan to put a total of $750 aid on hold to avoid insolvency for New York State -- came just as school administrators were ...

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Business Briefing | Regulatory: Regulators Shut 7 Banks; 140 Have Failed This Year

15 hours ago ago from The New York Times

Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took over all seven. The California banks were First Federal Bank of California, based in Santa Monica, and Imperial Capital Bank of La Jolla. The real estate downturn has hit California especially hard, and 17 banks there have ...

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