Posted on: Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 15:25 CST
University administrators were urged on Wednesday to avoid even applying for stimulus money unless they planned to hire people almost immediately, the New York Times reported.
Dr. Raynard S. Kington, the acting director of the National Institutes of Health, said it would be the height of embarrassment if the grants were handed out to institutions that did not use them to hire people and make purchases Read the rest of this entry »
Fremont A’s boosters can put away their rally caps.
The team announced Tuesday that it has given up hope of coming to town in the face of staunch opposition from residents and several businesses.
“I have concluded that further consideration of the A’s relocating to Fremont must cease,” team co-owner Lew Wolff wrote in a letter sent to city officials Tuesday.
Wolff’s announcement had been expected since last week Read the rest of this entry »
Forensic accountants in the Utah Attorney General's Office have managed
to track down nearly all of the money stolen from the state in an apparent
scam.
About $2.2 million of the $2.5 million reported stolen has been frozen
in a series of accounts, investigators said.
"The good news is we're getting about 87 percent of it back," chief
deputy Utah Attorney General Kirk Torgensen said Monday. "The rest is just
gone. It could be anywhere in the world." Read the rest of this entry »
• What's a ward fund?
It's money set aside for each of Aurora's 10 ward aldermen to use at their discretion, although the money was originally designated to go for street or other infrastructure projects. The allocation is $580,000 each year.
• That's $5.8 million total. How does the city pay for it?
Aurora uses gaming tax money from Hollywood Casino to fund the ward accounts. The $12.6 million picked up by the city in 2008 was Read the rest of this entry »
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
County officials want the Legislature to let them raise some taxes without a public vote.
The House Finance Committee held a public hearing on two bills Tuesday, one that would only apply to King County, and the other that would apply to the state's 38 other counties.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports that the bills would let local county council members raise sales taxes by themselves and give counties the same ability Read the rest of this entry »
Akron, OH
Albuquerque, NM
Anaheim, CA
Anchorage, AK
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA
Aurora, CO
Austin, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Baltimore, MD
Baton Rouge, LA
Birmingham, AL
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Chandler, AZ
Charlotte, NC
Chesapeake, VA
Chicago, IL
Chula Vista, CA
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Corpus Christi, TX
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The Ohio airport has conducted design and other preliminary work for the $7.5 million project, which includes replacing aging sewer and storm-water lines.
"We can begin this project this season if it's funded," says Kristie VanAuken, the airport's senior vice president for marketing. "We're ready to go."
The airport may get its wish. President Obama last week signed the $787 billion economic stimulus program that will inject about $1.1 billion Read the rest of this entry »
Legislation that helps pay for repairs to community colleges, state buildings and roads is among the revenue bills up in the air as a key legislative deadline looms this week.
Wednesday is the deadline for money bills to clear the chambers they originated in. If the measures don't gain approval, they will not survive the ongoing 2009 regular legislative session.
The fate of some bills hinges on a federal stimulus package recently signed into law. Read the rest of this entry »
is the poster child, raising $19.8 million for his 2006 gubernatorial race including $3.3 million in public financing. In the 2006 elections, Florida devoted $11.1 million to the campaigns of statewide candidates who still raised tens of millions of their own money from private contributors.
But government-watchdog groups want to reform the system without abolishing it.
Last week, Common Cause of Florida Executive Director Ben Wilcox told the Read the rest of this entry »
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
– U.S. poet E.E. Cummings
It's taken a financial crisis, but it's starting to stick: Americans are saving more. Or at least trying.
Part of it has been forced. As paychecks shrink, jobs dry up, mortgages collapse and credit card companies clamp down, many Americans have had no choice. They couldn't keep spending.
And the savings are beginning to add up. Read the rest of this entry »