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• SEQUESTER JESTER: Tornado warnings

  
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  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – We’ve heard recently about furloughs for FAA air traffic controllers which have been suspended, but there is another agency facing funding cuts: NOAA, which could jeopardize the safety of all Minnesotans when severe weather strikes. Joe Calderone is an employee organization representative ...
  2 weeks ago

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• More Fixes Won’t Fix Sequestration’s Harms

  
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  Never let it be said that Congress can’t get anything done because bipartisanship is dead. Look at how swiftly Republicans and Democrats jointly acted when the air traffic controller furloughs started inconveniencing frequent flyers. This isn’t the first time Congress has created a loophole in the law that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Apocalypse Now!?

  
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  What comes into your mind when you hear the word  apocalypse ? Most of us think of us think of the total destruction of the world, or at least life as we know it. Think zombies roaming the streets, feasting on brains. On the other hand, my sarcastic generation is doing a pretty good job of using apocalypse as a silly ...
  3 weeks ago

• The End Of FAA Furloughs Brings Relief To New York Airports

  
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  Photo courtesy of Epsos.de The first ever FAA furlough came to a quick end this week as Congress did an about face and passed legislation to return the nation’s air traffic controllers to regular work status. The furlough had been a part of a litany of budget cuts attached to sequestration. To date, the FAA ...
  3 weeks ago

• Economics as a Morality Play

  
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  Everyone knows that old Shaker song : ‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free ‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, ‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight. Aaron Copland riffed on it in Appalachian Spring, Judy ...
  4 weeks ago

• FAA Presses Case For Sequester Exemption

  
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  Yesterday more than 863 delays in the system were attributable to staffing reductions resulting from the furlough at the New York, Washington, Cleveland, Jacksonville and Los Angeles En Route Centers, the Potomac, Dallas and Southern California TRACONs and Detroit Tower. There were more than 2,132 additional delays as ...
  4 weeks ago

• White House to back FAA flexible-spending plan to end ATC furloughs

  
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  Chicago Tribune: "Hostages on the tarmac!" Has the latest strategy for the Nightmare on Sequester Street backfired? After a week of finger-pointing over flight delays caused by a 4% reduction in the FAA budget from the sequester, Senate Democrats are ready to throw in the towel rather than risk any more anger — ...
  4 weeks ago

• Calls to Privatize the FAA Follow Controller Furloughs and Airport Delays

  
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  It didn’t take long for calls to privatize the FAA to surface following the agency’s announcement on Sunday  that due to sequester cuts of $637 million (out of its $16 billion budget), all 47,000 of its employees, including 15,000 air traffic controllers, were being furloughed. The resulting delays were ...
  4 weeks ago

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