Showing posts with label local government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local government. Show all posts
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Battle over police pensions turns ugly

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(Reuters) - A drive by some American cities to cut costly police retirement benefits has led to an extraordinary face-off between local p...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

From suburb to basket case: How California city traveled the road to ruin

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- When this sun-drenched exurb east of Los Angeles filed for bankruptcy protection in August, the city attorney sug...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

LA Adds Another Meatless Day

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So the liberal wienies in LA have now decreed that Monday's shall be meatless. This of course just further demonstrates the complete la...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

California: City of Atwater Declares Fiscal Emergency

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(Reuters) - The city council of Atwater, California approved a fiscal emergency declaration on Wednesday night, a move that could put the c...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform

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Wall Street lobbyists are awesome. I’m beginning to develop a begrudging respect not just for their body of work as a whole, but also for t...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Years of Unraveling, Then Bankruptcy for a City

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 STOCKTON, Calif. — This inland port on the San Joaquin River recently became the largest city in the country to declare bankruptcy, but ev...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Third California City Files Bankruptcy

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - As recently as last month, no city in California had opted for bankruptcy since 2008, and no U.S. city of mor...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Scranton PA Mayor Slashes All Civil Service Pay To Minimum Wage

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Unions representing civil servants in the city of Scranton, Pa., are girding for battle after the mayor announced recently that he would be...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Pledges forgotten, local governments repurpose federally funded parks

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The government promised that the public would get parks where citizens could exercise and stay strong – shared open spaces that would be th...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

When a county runs off a cliff

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ONE county jail here is so crowded that some inmates sleep on the floor, while the other county jail, a few miles down the road, sits empty....
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