Budget Cuts

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• AC Transit Cuts: Another Reason to Bike

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 474
  Waiting for the 51 is like waiting to achieve Nirvana. The sticky bench. The splat of an unidentified stain seeping into the cracks of the sidewalk (Yogurt Park and home-fermented beer don’t mix, ya dig?), the wizened cashier from your favorite Phở joint clutching a plastic bag of leftovers, the Vietnam Vet ...
  7 hours ago

• Fewer fake parks due to budget cuts

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 551
  NEW YORK (AP/ 1010 WINS ) -- Mayor Michael Bloombergs administration has scaled back a promise to turn schoolyards into parks. The citys Independent Budget Office blames budget woes. The schoolyard proposal was widely touted by the Bloomberg administration. He unveiled it as part of his long-term environmental plan ...
  8 hours ago

• DOE to award $12 million in raises to central office employees

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 604
  At the same time city schools are poised to suffer mid-year budget cuts, the Department of Education is awarding $12 million in pay raises over the next two years to non-union department employees, Chancellor Joel Klein announced this afternoon. Central office employees have gone two years without raises and are ...
  13 hours ago

• Cross Bay toll coming back, buses& trains to be eliminated

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 551
  From NY1 : Elected officials in Jackson Heights say there are actually other ways for the MTA to avoid service cuts, including leasing out commercial space at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue station.
  1 day ago

• Virginia cuts $42 million more from transportation budget

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 948
  The downturn in highway tax revenue has brought about yet another round of cutbacks in Virginias transportation spending, a $42 million reduction that will curtail road repaving plans.
  1 day ago

• Fire pits out, tsunami signs in

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  Is it me or does this thing about the City putting up tsunami signs ring a wrong tune in these budget cutting times?On one hand, OB and the rest of San Diego beaches are threatened with losing our fire pits, yet at the same time, the City goes around and puts up these warning signs.Whew! I am sooo relieved. I never ...
  1 day ago

• Alberta Conservatives cut $12 million from disability supports

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Recession is blamed on first budget cuts aimed at disabled Albertans with developmental disabilitiesCBC Calgary is reporting a CP story that Mary Anne Jablonski, minister of seniors and community supports, plans to cut $12 million from the budget for NGOs. While the Minister is calling on six groups who support the ...
  1 day ago

• Budget Days

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 136
       The annual exercise in the Alabama State House is underway...the heads of dozens of state agencies will come, hat in hand, asking the legislative budget committee for more money. I ran into a college president walking in this afternoon and reminded him to keep his hand opened wide. "Both hands!" he ...
  2 days ago

• Capo Teachers and Anaheim Workers Protest Cuts to Dramatically Different Responses

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 539
  There were two public meetings Tuesday night where public employees showed up to express their interest in resolving the budget shortfalls affecting both employers. One at the Capistrano Unified School District Board meeting, and one at the Anaheim City Council meeting. The employees were met with dramatically ...
  3 days ago

• While I Deconstruct the Gutierrez Immigration Bill..Protest the NY MTA

  
  VivirLatino — Authority: 556
  I’m working on deconstructing the CIR ASAP pero in the meantime, I wanted to take a few moments to come down against the NY’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s plan to deal with it’s budget shortfall by slowly eliminating the free student metrocard program for middle and high schoolers. JOIN COUNCILMEMBER ...
  3 days ago

• Kremer: Paterson right to cut

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 441
  The budget cuts just announced by Gov. David Paterson will stimulate cries of pain, lawsuits and protest rallies. But the same groups that have benefited from the Legislatures spending spree had to realize that sooner or later the party would be over.It has been almost 20 years since the state was faced with any kind ...
  3 days ago

• More on the fire pits: the City has been trying to close them for years and it’s not about money.

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  The City of San Diego has been trying to close or remove the fire pits at the beaches for years. This is the only conclusion I can reach after reviewing a 3 page memo that has crossed my desk that was given to the Peninsula Planning Board way back in May of 2003 - over 6 years ago.The memo is from the San Diego ...
  3 days ago

• Shaky Economy Slams Door on Free Cancer Screening for Poor

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 155
  Filed under: Disease Prevention , Cancer Low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned way for free cancer screenings, or they are being placed on interminable waiting lists, as unemployment hovers at 10 percent and more people go without health insurance, according to the Associated Press . ...
  4 days ago

• ABC-10 News picks up on interest of Fire Pit Adoption

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  San Diegos ABC news affiliate Channel 10 came out to interview me this morning about our ideas of adopting fire pits in OB. Mike Chen, the reporter and camera guy all rolled into one, appeared at our doorstep wanting an interview and we couldnt resist the PR. I quickly threw on my OB Rag T-shirt and got in front of ...
  4 days ago

• Call to Action: Last Minute Budget Meeting Set By School Board

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  Stressed out for the holidays? Running around trying spread all that good cheer while not breaking the budget? Well, if you’ve got kids in school or care about education, you need to revise your schedule for this week. A critical meeting of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education has been called for ...
  4 days ago

• Gay Rights Battle Lands On Kruger’s Doorstep

  
  Sheepshead Bites — Authority: 141
  Over the weekend, gay rights activists marched in front of State Senator Carl Kruger’s Mill Basin home, enraged at the senator’s recent vote against marriage equality in New York State. According to NBC New York, activists called Kruger a “bigot”, and are planning more protests in the coming weeks.Kruger has ...
  4 days ago

• Natomas Teachers Vote to Ratify Contract

  
  NATOMASBUZZ.COM THE Natomas News Blog — Authority: 132
  NATOMAS – Teachers in the Natomas Unified School District voted Thursday to ratify a Tentative Agreement negotiated between the Natomas Teachers Association and the school district which will contribute about $2.2 million to the District budget, which has been devastated by recent cuts. As a result, and ...
  4 days ago

• Labor leaders: It’s time for tax reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 625
  Iowa’s labor unions have stepped up and made sacrifices in order to help the state get past record deficits, and now it’s time for lawmakers to look at the tax code, two prominent labor leaders said. During a taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” the American Federation of State, County, and ...
  4 days ago

• San Carlos Contemplates Deep Cuts in Police, Fire, and Park Services.

  
  The White Oaks Blog — Authority: 121
  Is all of this talk about budget cuts giving you indigestion? Unfortunately, it’s only just the beginning.  In tonight’s San Carlos City Council meeting , the “new” Council (welcome aboard Andy Klein!) will vote on the proposed operating budget reductions that were the decided on earlier this year.   ...
  5 days ago

• New Democrat Assembly Speaker John Perez is already talking about raising our taxes!

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 536
  Ruh roh!  Assemblyman John Perez was just appointed to be the new Assembly Speaker and he is already talking about raising our taxes – again!Perez also “alluded to proposals to eliminate the rule that the Legislature pass a budget with a two-thirds vote,” according to the Sacramento Bee.Great.  Then he and his ...
  5 days ago

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