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• Tuition tax credit task force meeting, Part 3

  
  Blog For Arizona — Authority:
  This hearing will not be televised by David Safier [ Note: In classic blog fashion, Part 3 is at the top of the page with Parts 2 and 1 following. Scroll down if you want to read them in the order they were written.] These days, state legislative business is videotaped and streamed on the web. Its one ...
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• Tuition tax credit task force meeting, Part 2

  
  Blog For Arizona — Authority:
  Crandall thinks some public testimony is inappropriate by David Safier One of the people who testified at Wednesdays House task force on tuition tax credits and STOs was Ann-Eve Pedersen, one of the Tucsonans who have worked hard to uncover information about misuse of tuition tax credit funds and are trying to ...
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• Tuition tax credit task force meeting, Part 1

  
  Blog For Arizona — Authority:
  An STO fund sweep? What an idea! by David Safier The House task force on tuition tax credits and STOs met Wednesday. This is the House group started by Ds, then joined by some Rs, not to be confused with the Senate committee started by Rs in response to earlier task force. Both the Republic and the Trib ...
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• KHOU spotlights Texas state Senate travel, including Maui trip, Ritz-Carlton hotel stay, private plane use

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 548
  Big thanks to KHOU 11 News for doing their own take on our state Senate travel story.Their report aired at 10 Friday night:Records show that while at a legislative conference in New York, Houston Sen. Rodney Ellis billed taxpayers for two nights at the Ritz Carlton, at a rate of $495 per night. Meanwhile, other [...]
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• Oregon governor defends green tax breaks

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 803
  Gov. Ted Kulongoski: The Business Energy Tax Credit program has created jobs and gets state scrutiny.
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• APS bringing in two national experts to review test data

  
  Get Schooled — Authority: 537
  A lot of you were skeptical that Atlanta Public Schools would bring in credible experts to review test score swings that an AJC investigative team uncovered in a series of reports. For those stories, the AJC presented the findings of reporter Heather Vogell and data-base investigative reporter Johny Perry to ...
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• Mayawati preparing BSP for state upper house elections

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) Buoyed by her party’s sweep in the by-elections to 11 assembly seats, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has got down to preparing for the next electoral battle - to the Vidhan Parishad or upper house of the state legislature.Elections to 36 seats of ...
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• When you outlaw laws, only outlaws will have laws

  
  Random Musings — Authority: 131
  Tedski at Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion has covered this already, but its worthy of more coverage. Especially in light of the apparent fizzling out of next weeks likely-to-remain-a-rumor special session of the lege to address the ongoing budget deficit... Russell Pearce likes to tout himself as a " rule of law " ...
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• Westerville may gets into targeted House race

  
  The Daily Briefing — Authority: 609
  Westerville Mayor Anne Gonzales has jumped into the 19th Ohio House District race, one of the primary targets for House Republicans in 2010. Gonzales, a Republican, wants to challenge incumbent Rep. Marian Harris, D-Columbus, who won a narrow victory in the GOP-leaning district in 2008. Her win and others ...
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• Saliba jumps into Delaware House district

  
  The Daily Briefing — Authority: 609
  Traci Saliba, the chief deputy clerk for Delaware Municipal Court, says she is running for the 2nd Ohio House District. The 46-year-old Powell resident looks to replace Rep. Kris Jordan, who is running for the Senate. The district, which covers all of Delaware County, is solidly Republican, and Saliba touts her ...
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• Facebook flap in Barrow raises troubling fairness issues

  
  Get Schooled — Authority: 537
  I was going to wait until Monday to post this column but I am putting the piece up now as I think this story deserves a healthy dose of sunshine. To grasp this entire bizarre story, please read my two earlier related posts, especially the one right below  on the anonymous e-mail that set this whole tragicomedy in ...
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• Washington budget short about $2B through mid-2011

  
  Talk Radio 950 KOZE-AM — Authority: 147
  Washington state’s budget deficit is now about $2 billion.That’s the gap between the state government costs and expected tax revenue, through the middle of 2011, and it could get worse after state economists give an updated forecast of revenue trends next week.Gov. Christine Gregoire and state lawmakers will have ...
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• Indiana GOP Says to Redistrict Without Politics

  
  State News Shot — Authority: 141
  From JournalGazette.net: Indiana Senate Republicans want to make changes in the way legislative district maps are drawn to lessen political factors used in redistricting. They plan to introduce a bill in the upcoming session that would require lawmakers who draw new maps in 2011 to use guidelines that would try to ...
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• NY: Disgraced ex-Governor Spitzer Thinks Current Governor is doing Great Job

  
  State News Shot — Authority: 141
  From New York Daily News: Gov. Paterson may not have the President’s backing, but he got a ringing endorsement Thursday from hooker-happy Eliot Spitzer - the man who got him into this mess in the first place. “David is a friend. He is somebody I support,” the disgraced former governor said at Harvard ...
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• Iowa GOP Unveils Transparency and Accountability Proposals

  
  State News Shot — Authority: 141
  From Sioux City Journal: Iowa Republicans unveiled two legislative proposals Thursday they hope would provide more government transparency and accountability to taxpayers. State Sen. Kim Reynolds, R-Osceola, said the Legislature should adopt a taxpayer transparency act that would establish state and local budget ...
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• Are Your Home Insurance Rates Too High? | Insurance Quote Search

  
  Compare Home Insurance Rates — Authority: 152
  Have you ever been suspicious of the cost of your home insurance coverage? According to The National Association of Insurance Commissioners and The Dallas. Originally posted here: Are Your Home Insurance Rates Too High? | Insurance Quote Search
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• Bill to cut education funding passes

  
  Nebraska Radio Network — Authority: 148
  The first major cut in this legislative special session is being approved by Senators. $32 million dollars would be cut from education next year. State Senator Greg Adams of York heads up the education committee. “This bill is not intended to reduce property tax, we reduce school spending, unlike where we were at ...
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• Special Session debate on education underway

  
  Nebraska Radio Network — Authority: 148
  It’s day seven of the Special Session, but only their first day of debate. State Senator Greg Adams of York is head of the education committee and explains how funding would be reduced to schools in order to help clear up a $334 million dollar deficit. “If approved by you, what we’re going to say to school ...
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• Class size compliance could be tricky this school-year, commissioner says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Florida school districts are worried -- make that very worried -- about complying with the states class-size law next year, when there will be a head count in every "core" classroom. The Central Florida Public School Boards Coalition is even...
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• Failed states: California is overregulated, overtaxed, and just plain over

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  In July, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a "Commission on the 21st Century Economy," it was hoped the group of experts could provide a way to finally resolve Californias budget woes. When the commission issued its report at the end of September, however, the recommendations fell to the floor with a ...
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