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Louisville's '09 deficit hit $29 million, reports The Courier-Journal
21 hours ago ago from The Crossroads
Louisville Metro government is closing the books on fiscal 2009, and it was worse than anyone thought. The city's budget deficit reached $29.6million last year, $9.6million more than the projected shortfall Mayor Jerry Abramson's administration talked about for months before the fiscal year ended June 30. All of the cuts necessary to balance fiscal 2009's budget — as required by law — have been made. But the administration's finance ...
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8 hours ago ago from Conservative Northwest - The Right Side of the Left Coast
Yesterday I got a call from my boss. Seems the Governor's revised budget for the new fiscal year came out, included within that budget is the decision to close the prison where I have taught for the past 4 years. The plan is to begin the process with one unit to be closed by April and the other by July. Much as it hurts to be joining the ranks of the unemployed within the next 6 months, as a conservative it becomes put up or shut up ...
Related contentRevenue Shortfall for County could be more than $200 million
20 hours ago ago from The West Ranch Beacon - News & Commentary for the Santa Clarita Valley
The current budget projections show that L.A. County’s Proposition 172 and realignment sales tax revenues will fall short of budgeted revenue for this current fiscal year by more than $200 million. The County CEO office is preparing a plan to mitigate the shortfall, which will be presented to the Board in January. In a letter dated December 8, 2009 to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, County CEO William T. Fujioka wrote the ...
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2 hours ago ago from News.PreOwnedCar.com
The contest: The Design Challenge is part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designers’ conference that is held every year during the Los Angeles Auto Show press days, Dec. 2 and 3, 2009. For the last six years a new Design Challenge theme is chosen and the major Southern California Automotive Design Studios battle against each other to showcase their talents and further explore new ideas in automotive design. The Design Los Angeles ...
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12 hours ago ago from Sports Blog
Forbes magazine just released their annual listing of NBA franchise values and for the first time in four years a team other than the New York Knicks sits atop the metaphorical pile of money . This year it is the Los Angeles Lakers who win the crown for most valuable franchise in the NBA with a Forbes listing of $607 million (a four percent increase over last year). It is no surprise that the reigning champs are raking in the dough given ...
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Andrew Hauptman: Teaching My Kids the Importance of Service
11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Around this time of the year, I try to keep in mind the ways my family can give back to our community. This past Saturday, 48 families -- over 160 volunteers in total -- including myself and my two children gathered at Grand View Elementary School in West Los Angeles, where we picked up paintbrushes and got to work helping to transform the campus as part of City Year Los Angeles' 2nd Annual Family Service Day. City Year Los Angeles is a ...
Related contentPolanski's lawyers seek end to U.S. sex case
10 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Entertainment
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for Roman Polanski battled prosecutors in a California court on Thursday, arguing again for dismissal of the film director's 1977 guilty plea for having sex with an underage girl, citing judicial misconduct. But prosecutors told the appeals court the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who fled the United States in 1978 and is now under house arrest in Switzerland, should first return to Los Angeles to face sentencing, ...
Related contentMikulski criticizes Metro for lapses in safety oversight
16 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
Metro board Chairman Jim Graham said Thursday that the transit agency would soon announce a reorganization and substantial management changes, hours after Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) angrily criticized senior managers at a hearing on Capitol Hill. This Story Mikulski testified that Metro has been paying lip service to lapses in safety oversight and accountability. She said she was really hot about this and called ...
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