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Mayor tells Council to shrink spending or raise taxes, fares
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserMayor Kirk Caldwell has warned the City Council that it will need to cut spending or raise either property taxes or bus fares to balance the city's $2.09 billion operating budget. But Council Budget Chairwoman Ann Kobayashi said Council staffers have...Tags: Marketing, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Taxation, Local Government
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In Kansas, it's lawmakers versus the courts
The Kansas City StarKansas lawmakers began the year turning away the chief justice of the state Supreme Court from his traditional speech to the Legislature. The legislative session nears an end with the chief justice accusing a leading senator with political coercion....Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Trials, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Elections, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Congress, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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Corporate, PAC cash left off campaign reports
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Fifty-one legislative candidates last year failed to report a total of $145,875 in contributions from political action committees and corporations, according to a state watchdog agency's check of campaign finance filings. Among them were two top House...Tags: Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Mike Turner, Murfreesboro, Finance
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Chesapeake Energy hires Anadarko executive as CEO
Reuters(Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp on Monday named a top executive at rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp to head the No. 2 U.S. natural gas producer, which has suffered a governance crisis and liquidity crunch over the last year. Chesapeake hired Robert...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Corporate Officers, Petroleum Industry
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California oil tax push would direct new funds to schools
The Sacramento BeeJust months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is under way to ensure that the next stream of higher education funding flows out of the ground. The idea of an oil severance tax has been bubbling for years,...Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, Taxation, Noreen Evans, Education
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Special Report: The Rise and Fall of China's Sun King
ReutersHONG KONG (Reuters) - In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, listed the people who had been important in his rise to fame and riches....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, National Government, Solyndra LLC, Trials, Environmental Issues
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Pressure builds on U.S. officials to take heat for IRS scandal
ReutersBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Pressure was building on Monday for the Obama administration to fire more people linked to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, possibly including...Tags: Washington, DC, Dave Camp, Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch, Taxation
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Mexican opposition dispute goes public, threatening reforms
ReutersBy Dave Graham and Miguel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY, May 20 (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena Nieto....Tags: Regional Elections, Felipe Calderon, Mexico, U.S. Congress, Government
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Early entries start 2014 governor's race
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, CheyenneWith 535 days until the 2014 general election, Wyoming's gubernatorial race is already well under way. Superintendent of Public Education Cindy Hill kicked off the contest when she announced her candidacy Jan. 31. That was just two days after the...Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, Matt Mead, Government, Republican Party
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Nancy Pelosi - 'I'm proudly liberal'
Financial TimesNancy Pelosi is beaming as she bustles into the House of Representatives dining room on Capitol Hill, which combines the busyness of a staff cafeteria with the grace of a late 19th-century reception room. A large painting of George Washington on the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Nancy Pelosi, Human Rights
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Council of Europe tells Putin of concern over Russian NGO law
Reuters* European rights, democracy body says law could have 'chilling effect' * Independent pollster says law may put it out of business By Denis Dyomkin SOCHI, Russia, May 20 (Reuters) - The head of the Council of Europe told Russian President Vladimir...Tags: Justice and Rights, Elections, Human Rights, European Union, United Nations
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