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 Looking Back at Philipsburg
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I missed it when the New York Times originally released it, but via the Bad Astronomy blog, I was recently introduced to this NYT image depicting the Obama’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011.
Bad Astronomy mentioned it to deflate criticism of the size of NASA’s budget. Personally, I appreciate the depiction of just [...] 
Seen in The Day: Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a pair of deficit-cutting bills Monday, saying the proposals passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature didn’t make sufficient reductions in state spending. The $12.4 million in spending cuts in the Democrats’ mitigation represented a "feeble" response to the current-year budget deficit, Rell said in a veto message, at a [...] 
Some of you may be familiar with the mess facing the California state legislature. Thanks to years of ballot initiatives, the state faces certain spending mandates. The state is also limited in its ability to increase revenue, thanks to another ballot initiative requiring a supermajority for such votes and partisan politicians’ inability to play well [...]
I received this in my email this morning, from Connecticut’s Office of the Healthcare Advocate. Perhaps some readers might have an interest….
I’m writing this from a hotel room outside New York, and annoyingly my bandwidth is too constrained currently to watch her speech…but maybe you will have better luck if you’re so inclined:
From what I’ve seen in the text of the speech and related banter at My Left Nutmeg (a big chunk of the no-new-taxes [...]
Seen at CT News Junkie: In anticipation of Gov. M. Rell’s Monday night address which focused on how her budget would set what she called a “fundamentally new vision for state government,” a coalition of groups calling themselves the “Better Choices for Connecticut” campaign unveiled their own budget plan to rebalance the state tax system and [...] 
CTNewsJunkie has made available a transcript of Governor Rell’s televised address to the state Monday evening, the punchline of which is: In two days’ time I will be presenting a recommended state budget to the Legislature for the next two years. In many ways, it is a budget unlike any that has been presented in recent [...] 
It seems that not everyone got the memo about how Obama’s election was supposed to end “business as usual” in Washington. Last night, I noticed this gem at RedState: Since Pelosi and the Democrats regained control of Congress $2,029,208,621,639.09, or $2.03 trillion, has been added to the national debt. That is a 23% increase in two [...]
If we had a responsible government, you’d think that if we’re spending billions of dollars on the President’s personal War on Iraq, support could be found for other needs as well. However, we don’t have a reasonable government. Seen at economicindicators.gov: Due to budgetary constraints, the Economic Indicators service (http://www.economicindicators.gov) will be discontinued effective March 1, [...] 
Seen in the Courant: President Bush on Friday used a “pocket veto” to reject a sweeping defense bill because he dislikes a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era.[...] The president’s objections were focused on a provision deep within legislation that sets defense policy for the coming [...] |
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