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Gay Marriage, Spending Cuts and a Powerless EDC?
2013-02-24 04:24:45| Toys - Topix.net
This week's State Report centers around RI business leaders taking a stand and State Reps targeting the EDC and 'benevolent gestures.' Although marriage equality has been largely absent from the news cycle since it passed in the House last month, it reentered the headlines this week thanks to a coalition of business leaders urging the General ... (more)
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CDC chief: Spending cuts threaten public health
2013-02-23 00:48:31| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says his agency will lose more than $300 million at a time when public health already is struggling to keep up with new germs.
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Budget deal cuts EU energy spending, promises climate focus
2013-02-08 20:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An EU budget haggled out in marathon talks on Friday cut deeply into a new transport and energy fund and sacrificed ambition to make farming greener, but broke ground by committing a fifth of spending to the climate. Spending for cross-border transport, energy and telecoms projects was one of the main victims of the focus on austerity. It was chopped to just under $40.14 billion, down from an initial proposal that had earmarked 50 billion. "This is at least a door opener for interconnecting...
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Return of Chucky: Protland needs to make big spending cuts. Charlie Hales is swinging the ax.
2013-01-30 18:02:04| PortlandOnline
Aaron Mesh in the Willamette Week, January 30,2013