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07/06/10
The Detroit Free Press:
For 35,000 jobless Michigan workers, this holiday
weekend marks the start of a new set of worries: the sudden end of their
unemployment benefits.
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07/06/10
The Albany Times Union:
The first major report from the new Authorities Budget Office provides
an accounting of how well New York's hundreds of state and local
authorities are living by the laws laid down in a new reform package.
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07/06/10
The Anchorage Daily News:
More than 25,000 anxious public employees and retirees have signed up
for credit protection services after a state contractor last year lost
personal data on 77,000 current and former state, municipal and school
employees, state officials say.
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07/06/10
The Detroit Free Press:
The Michigan Legislature approved a new $12.8-billion school funding plan on Thursday that boosts state aid by $11 per pupil immediately and through the 2010-11 school year.
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07/06/10
The Star-Tribune:
The Wyoming Department of Revenue has suspended
sales tax collections from gun shows because of increasing
animosity toward the state's field tax agents.
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07/06/10
The Columbia Daily Tribune:
First there was the Ford factory in Hazelwood. Then Chrysler’s twin
production plants in Fenton. Next, a potential Bombardier airplane
assembly shop in Kansas City.
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07/06/10
Pantagraph:
Eligibility has been tightened for a program that
helps older adults remain safe at home by providing in-home
assistance.
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07/06/10
Bloomberg BusinessWeek:
New cigarette taxes hitting Hawaii smokers Thursday make each pack cost
40 cents more, reaching an average of nearly $8.
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07/06/10
The Sacramento Bee:
With the ballyhooed July 1 milepost having come and gone, expect slow
going on the budget for a while.
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07/06/10
The Quad-City Times:
Net state tax collections for the 12-month period
that ended Wednesday were the lowest in four years and further
evidence Iowa struggled through “a really bad recession,” according
to a fiscal analyst with the Legislative Services Agency.
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07/06/10
Stateline.org:
Two months ago, as Missouri lawmakers were
wrestling with a $500 million budget gap and their legislative session
was winding down, Governor Jay Nixon implored them to pass comprehensive
reforms to the state's tax credit programs for businesses and other
organizations.
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07/01/10
More than two years after Gov. Jennifer Granholm launched what may be
the most ambitious job retraining program in Michigan history, 16,164
workers have found new jobs but nearly twice that many either dropped
out or are still unable to find work.
The more-than-$500 million
No Worker Left Behind program may be well-intentioned and well-designed,
but with Michigan leading the nation in unemployment for most of the
past four years, success has been limited.
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07/01/10
NASHVILLE — Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday he signed a bill
requiring local jailers to try and determine the immigration status of
prisoners in part to keep the issue from “throwing gasoline on the fire”
in this year’s political campaigns.
But the governor, a Democrat who is barred by law from seeking a
third term, also said that while he doesn’t like how the bill is being
used “symbolically,” he views its requirements as not unreasonable in
light of similar local-federal partnerships already under way in the
state’s four biggest counties.
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07/01/10
TRENTON — This morning at 3
a.m. the New Jersey State Assembly passed a wind energy bill, which
would provide $100 million in tax credits for companies manufacturing
components for wind turbines in New Jersey, and a market-based incentive
program for developers of wind farms off of the Jersey coast.
The "Offshore Wind Economic Development Act," is intended to help the
state meet the mandate of its Energy Master Plan, which calls for the
development of 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2020.
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07/01/10
Gov. Sean Parnell signed a pair of bills Monday, one of which set
up a youth court funding mechanism through court fines while the other
established a counseling program for jurors in emotionally traumatic
trials.
Senate Bill 257, sponsored by District B Democratic Sen. Dennis
Egan and District 4 Republican Rep. Cathy Muñoz, sets up a process that
allows 25 percent of court fines to help fund youth court. Currently,
adult criminal fines belong to the unrestricted general fund.
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07/01/10
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is entering the nation's charged debate over immigration, agreeing to hear a challenge from business and civil liberties groups to an Arizona law that cracks down on employers who hire undocumented workers.
The justices on Monday accepted an appeal from the Chamber of Commerce, American Civil Liberties Union and others to a lower court ruling that upheld Arizona's law.
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06/29/10
Luis Sanchez and Marlen Ramirez, undocumented
immigrants from Mexico, packed up and moved to Pennsylvania this month,
taking their three U.S. citizen children with them.
Many will cheer their departure, saying it's a sign that Arizona's
new immigration law, which hasn't taken effect yet, is driving out
illegal immigrants and potentially saving the state money. But not
everyone is pleased over the exodus of Latinos, both legal and illegal,
saying their flight from Arizona could hurt businesses, schools and
neighborhoods.
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06/29/10
NEW YORK - For at least 30 cash-strapped states counting on federal
stimulus money, the news was a stunning blow: A deficit-weary Congress
had rejected billions in additional aid, forcing lawmakers into a mad
scramble to balance their budgets.
Now, with a new fiscal year just days away in most states, many
governors are proposing to make up for the shortfall with tax increases,
cuts in essential services and potential layoffs of thousands of public
employees.
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06/29/10
Florida Republican leaders have begun crafting anti-illegal-immigrant
legislation modeled after an Arizona law that has incited widespread
protests and fueled national and international debate over U.S.
immigration policies.
Under the proposed bill, police would have
broad power under state law to ask suspects for proof of legal
residency, said Rep. William Snyder, a Republican from Stuart who plans
to introduce the legislation in November.
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06/29/10
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