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Chicago's Public Health Budget Gets The Flu

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Public Health, Budget Cuts, Health Care, Chicago, Aids, Chicago Budget, HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu, Mayor Daley, H1n1, Chicago News
Johnathon Briggs

Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.

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Paterson: 'Cutting Now Will Be Less Damaging Than Gutting Later'

nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Albany, Governor David Paterson, New York Economy, David Paterson, Budget Cuts, New York Economic Crisis, New York, Carl Kruger, New York News

Gov. David A. Paterson took to the radio, trying, in interviews on half a dozen stations, to add a sense of urgency to the budget negotiations, and re...

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Bloomberg Announces Massive Budget Cuts

nypost.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Bloomberg, New York City Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts, Mayor Bloomberg, City Agencies Budget Cuts, New York News

In one of the steepest budget cuts he's ordered in recent years, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday demanded spending slashes of 4 percent in fiscal year 2010 ...

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Bill Ritter Announces Cuts To Education, Asks For New Revenue Streams

Posted 11.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Fiscal Policy, Colorado Budget, Arra, Budget Cuts, Budget, Colorado Education Cuts, Stimulus, Bill Ritter, Denver News

Governor Ritter announced Friday his budget proposal for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, which includes $260 million in cuts to K-12 education funding, and...

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Terrance Carroll, Josh Penry Trade Barbs After Governor's Budget Announcement

Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: New Energy, Josh Penry, Barbara O'Brien, Terrance Carroll, Bill Ritter, Budget Cuts, Colorado Budget, Denver News

Governor Ritter's surrogates and his opponents traded barbs Thursday over the Governor's recently announced budget cuts. In response to the the Govern...

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Bill Ritter Budget Cut Program Frees Sex Offender By Mistake

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Sex Offender Mistake, Colorado Budget, Accidental Release, Sex Offender, Budget Cuts, Bill Ritter, Benn Joe Rael, Bill Ritter Sex Offender, Bill Ritter's Early Inmate Release, frees.sex, Colorado Early Release Bill, Prison Early Release, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado authorities said they inadvertently released a sex offender from prison under a moneysaving early release initiative, promptin...

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Ritter Addresses Colorado Budget: Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better

The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Scott McInnis, Colorado Budget, Budget Cuts, Bill Ritter, Stimulus Package, Bill Owens, Denver News

IDAHO SPRINGS -- Kicking off a series of planned town halls here Thursday, Gov. Bill Ritter told a crowd that included many concerned county employees...

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The Dubnoff Center Continues To Help Kids While California Continues To Cut Funds

Terry Gardner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact

Read More: Education Funding, Reggie Smith, Budget Cuts, Children, Education, Fundraiser, Dodgers, Sacramento, Dubnoff Center for Child Development, Learning Disabilities, Golf Tournament, Dubnoff, Impact News
Terry Gardner

The Dubnoff Center For Child Development plans to host its 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament in hopes of offsetting the massive California budget cuts that have stripped our educational institutions bare.

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Hickenlooper Budget Cuts Run Into City Council Opposition

The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Parks and Recreation, Judy Montero, Budget Cuts, Libraries, Byers, La Alma, Denver City Council, John Hickenlooper, Denver, Denver News

Denver City Council members expressed concern Wednesday over Mayor John Hickenlooper's plan to transfer management of four city recreation centers to ...

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Civil Discourse Is Alive and Well ... in Colorado

Carol Hedges | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Taxes, Revenue, League of Women Voters, Budget Cuts, Budgets, Fiscal Crisis, Rankings, Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, Colorado, Town Halls, Denver News
Carol Hedges

We've come a long way from Tocqueville's engaged America. I am happy to report, however, that thoughtful, respectful and civil discourse still thrives in the great state of Colorado.

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Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Colorado Billions -- Let's Close Them

Joel Judd | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Welfare, Budget Cuts, Tax Loopholes, Medicaid, Colorado Democrats, Severance Tax, Colorado General Assembly, Natural Gas, Colorado, Denver, Denver News
Joel Judd

We are faced with cutting mental health programs, raising tuition, cutting medical services for the poor. Yet we seem to have plenty of dough for corporate welfare that simply does not work.

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Stealing From California's Young People

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Student Fee Hikes, Prison Spending, CSU Board of Trustees, California State University, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oil Severance Tax, Senate Republicans, Oil Tax, Exxonmobile, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed, CSU System, California Republicans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pay Cuts, Higher Education, California Budget, Shell Oil, Higher Education Cuts, California State Legislature, Tobacco Tax, Teachers, Nurses, Chico State University, Arnold, California Republican Minority, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, California Faculty Association, President Paul Zingg, California Prisons, Budget Cuts, California Budget Crisis, Furloughs, Cfa, Csu, ab656, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.

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Open Letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Europe, Presidet Obama, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Special Olympics, Budget Cuts, State Budget, Middle Class, Dave Matthews, Tom Arnold, California, France, Paris, Anthony Shriver, College, American Dream, Best Buddies, New York Times, Autism, Developmentally Disabled, Mtv, Health Care, Michael-Jackson-Funeral-Arrangements, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Wildfires, California Budget Crisis, Politics News
Chantal Sicile-Kira

I can't afford to volunteer for the community anymore. Got to spend every free moment earning money or taking care of my mom and son.

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SHOCK: Government Discovers Double-Sided Photocopying, Saves $102 Million

WSJ | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Forest Service, Department of Defense, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, Goverment Spending, President Obama, Photocopying, Business News

With the budget deficit soaring toward $2 trillion, the Department of Justice has figured out how to play its part: double-sided photocopying. More T...

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States Forced to Cut Services to the Bone: The Opportunity Cost of the Bank Bailout

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home

Read More: State Budgets, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Budget Cuts, Senate Banking Committee, Economy, Economic Crisis, Fiscal Crisis, Aig, Neil Barofsky, Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd, Health Care, Citigroup, Home News
Arianna Huffington

Reading about the huge budget cuts almost every state in the country is being forced to make quickly puts the $4.7 trillion we have pumped into the financial sector into perspective, and leaves us pondering: what else we could have done with that money?

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The Last Crisis at the University of California?

Saree Makdisi | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: University of California, Budget, California, Uc, Budget Cuts, Business News
Saree Makdisi

State support once covered about 75 percent of the UC's core spending. Today, it covers less than half, and it is set to decline even further.

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Suffering in El Centro: Cigars in Sacramento

Ann Pettifor | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Deficit, State Budgets, Unemployment, Budget Cuts, Green New Deal, Economic Stimulus, Sales Tax, Business News
Ann Pettifor

California's economy is in free fall. This appears to be of little concern to Governor Schwarzenegger, who instead prefers to focus his energy, attention and political capital on the ballooning state budget.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Schwarzenegger, California Economic Crisis, California, California State Government, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Budget Cuts, New York Times Magazine, George W. Bush, Capitol, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, Mark Leibovich, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The California budget crisis continues to be a showdown between a recalcitrant Executive and a weak-kneed Legislature.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sticking It to "America's Best"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warren Thornton Youth Center, California Economic Crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, George W. Bush, General Douglas MacArthur, California, Governor Schwarzenegger, San Francisco Chronicle, California State Government, The Terminator, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Schwarzenegger, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, Capitol, Budget Cuts, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Thanks to an economic crisis his good friend George W. Bush gave us, Schwarzenegger is launching a frontal assault against virtually all of the state's public sector institutions.

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Risk of Major Social Upheaval Likely if Bank Bonanza Continues

Marshall Auerback | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Budget Cuts, Inflation, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Budget, Larry Summers, Banks, Timothy Geithner, G, Barack Obama, Housing Bubble, Politics News
Marshall Auerback

Is a Democratic administration and a Democratically controlled Congress presiding over one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history?

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Cali Budget Cuts Could Cause 'Public Safety Emergency'

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund and ProPublica | Ben Protess (Huff Investigative Fund) and Emily Witt (ProPublica) | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Public Safety Emergency, California, California Budget Crisis, California Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts, Budget, Politics News

As California lawmakers tackle their state's $24 billion deficit, one little-known proposal on the table is a $20 million cut to the state crime lab. ...

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California's Death Throes: A View From Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Crisis, California, Dennis Hollingsworth, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, Kenny Boy Lay, California Democratic Party, Gray Davis, Edmund Brown, California Democratic Clubs, Nancy Pelosi, The Terminator, Commonsense4CA.Org, California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger, California Budget Crisis, California Fiscal Crisis, Budget Cuts, Darrell Steinberg, State Legislature, Calpirs, Calworks, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A grassroots movement working within Democratic Party structures might break the cycle of abuse the Republican minority has inflicted upon the state.

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Education Crisis in Los Angeles Illuminates Racial and Economic Divide

Emily Henry | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Lay-Offs, Latino, Dorsey High School, Lausd, Teachers, Budget Cuts, Los Angeles, African Americans, Crenshaw-High-School, California, Politics News
Emily Henry

Teachers, parents, and students are preparing for a strike on May 15th, hoping to urge the LAUSD to spend its almost $1 billion of federal stimulus money and save jobs now.

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Obama To Ask Agency Heads For Budget Cuts

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Cuts, Budget, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Families are making tough decisions about their money and so too will their government, President Barack Obama said Saturday, promi...

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Dear AG Holder, We Want Your Children to Fail

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Latinos, African-Americans, Attorney General Holder, Budget Cuts, Teacher Training, Lausd, Teacher Credentials, Court-Ordered Bussing, The Achievement Gap, Inner City Schools, Pink Slips, Magnet Schools, Charter Schools, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Stimulus Package, School Budgets, Politics News
Dennis Danziger

Dear Attorney General Holder, Here's what I know from having taught in big city public high schools for the past 15 years: We want your children to fail. That's the truth.

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