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Tri-State-area lawmakers answer questions about sequester and its impact
The massive federal budget cuts commonly referred to as the sequester will be felt nationwide and will lead to furloughs at places such as Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Pa., while the 167th Airlift Wing in Martinsburg, W.Va., is facing layoffs,...
Tags: Unemployment, Budgets and Budgeting, National Security, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Base commander explains consequences of cutbacks
RAPID CITY, S.D. - The commander of the 28th Bomb Wing offered more insight on a decision to suspend training operations until this fall for the B-1 bombers at Ellsworth Air Force Base. The decision comes as a result of federal budget cuts. The 28th...
Tags: Military Equipment, Explosions, Layoffs and Downsizing, Emergency Incidents
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Cardin pledges to press for sequestration alternative in town hall meetings
Sen. Ben Cardin lamented snowballing damage from federal budget cuts in town hall meetings with federal workers and small-business leaders Friday, pledging to work toward an alternative budget solution by October. But he acknowledged that achieving a...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. House of Representatives, Small Businesses, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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California's budget: Judges, lawyers and lobbying
Should California judges be able to ask lawyers for help in lobbying Sacramento against cuts to the courts' budgets? Many judges and lawyers just assumed the answer was yes. Why wouldn't they be able to? Nobody is better acquainted with the trouble caused...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Religion and Belief, Justice System
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Ventura County air show canceled amid military budget cuts
The air show at Naval Base Ventura County, which had been expected to draw upward of 200,000 people with the Blue Angels headlining, is being canceled because of the automatic budget cuts called sequestration. "The community here in Ventura County is...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Armed Forces, Miramar, U.S. Department of Defense
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Budget cuts force California courts to delay trials, ax services
California courts, reeling from years of state budget cuts, are delaying hearings and trials, allowing records to sit unprocessed for months and slashing services at public windows, a judge's committee has reported. The report by the Trial Court...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Trials, Justice System, Jerry Brown
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Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal. But the...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Budgets and Budgeting, Healthcare Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Nursing Homes
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An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, raise taxes on the wealthy and trim popular benefit programs including Social Security and...Tags: Afghanistan, Government Aid, Agriculture, Agricultural Research and Technology, NATO Summit
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Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraft
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A top general says federal budget cuts that will ground one-third of the U.S. Air Force's active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers means "accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Korean War (1950-1953), Barack Obama, Military Equipment, Chuck Hagel
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Small-business owners less optimistic; hiring plans stall
WASHINGTON -- Small-business owners were less optimistic about the economy last month amid signs of another slowdown in the recovery. The Small Business Owner Optimism Index from the National Federal of Independent Business dropped to 89.5 in March,...
Tags: Business, Small Businesses, Inventories
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Federal Budget Cuts Ground Eielson F-16s, Blue Angels
Federal budget reduction have forced the grounding of an F-16 squadron at an Alaska base. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base was grounded Tuesday. Base spokesperson Capt. Joost Verduyn says...
Tags: Armed Forces
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