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Budget update - 9/14/09
Started Sep 14
PA Budget UPdate-7/30/09
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Today the Gov announced that he will veto the buget bill if sent to him in its current form. He appeared angry, disappointed and betrayed by House and Senate Democrats. He says the bill is not fiscally balanced (must be by the Pa Constitution) and t…
Today, an overall budget with a “spend number” has been agreed to by the three caucuses—Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, and House Democrats. However, Gov. Rendell has announced that he plans to veto the Budget if it comes to him in the form of…
While all or most of you were at school working, Lin Carvell and I went to Hbg to attend a press conference/rally organized by the PA School Funding Campaign (www.paschoolfunding.org) and the Pa Budget & Policy Center (www.pennbpc.org). About 100 of…
From: Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign [info@paschoolfunding.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:20 AM
To: Kachel, Debra
Subject: Budget Bill Advances to Conference Committee
The budget battle continues in Harrisburg, as we near the start of…
Below is the latest update from Glenn Miller, PaLA. The budget bill will shortly be moving on to a conference committee as the House and Senate cannot come to agreement and the ping-pong effect needs to come to an end as state workers are now workin…
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- At 5:00pm on September 9, 2009,
Linda Carvell said… - Your assessment of the day is absolutely accurate. The halls should have been resounding with concern rather than with echoes. It seems the legislators are most concerned with the poses they strike in order to win the next election. Whoever has the dollars to stuff in their campaign chests are the ones being heard, not the students, not the disposed, not the disabled.
I am perhaps too cynical about their seeming disinterest but I have lost faith in the system when the political climate is so polarized and so filled with self-interest rather than communal good and genuine care for the community.
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- Online instructor in the School Library & Info Technologies Graduate Dept., Mansfield university, Mansfield, PA
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