New Mexico Budget Struggles Across Special Session
The special session leaves New Mexico with a patched budget and wary optimism. Lawmakers avoided tough cuts, granting the governor power for future reductions while facing an election year glare and voter memory of prior grants.
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New Mexico
Santa Fe
Washington
St Patrick’s Day Historical Highlights
On March 17 in history notable events include St Patrick’s death in A D 461, British forces evacuating Boston in 1776, the Kanrin Maru becoming the first official Japanese ship in U S waters in 1860, and Theodore Roosevelt invoking crusading journalists in 1906. Other noted moments include the arrival of the Kanrin Maru in San Francisco ahead of a Japanese embassy delegation and related anniversaries.
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St. Patrick
Ireland
Saul
Boston
U.S
San Francisco
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Read-a-thon funds aid multiple sclerosis research
Twenty five years ago on March 17 1985 a read-a-thon raised funds for multiple sclerosis research. Participants included Tammy Crowe and Anna Wright along with Richard Harkness Ray Gutierrez Scott Szelipajlo and their parents listed in the readable fragment.
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Tammy Crowe
Barbara Crowe
Richard Harkness
Tom Cooper
Ray Gutierrez
Leandro Gutierrez
Scott Szelipajlo
Edward Jo
Anna Wright
Jim Wright
Congress urged to rethink financial regulation after Sarbanes Oxley
Ed Feulner argues in heritage.org that Sarbanes Oxley overregulated and failed to fix markets. He warns against creating a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency and warns against expanding powers to seize failing banks. He cites Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as core risk and urges targeted reforms instead of sweeping rules.
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United States
Sarbanes-Oxley
SEC
Tom Feeney
R-Fla
Michael Oxley
London
House
Senate
Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Federal
FDIC
Washington
Gants
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
The
Washington Post
U.S
Congress
Ed Feulner
Heritage Foundation
Heritage.org
Privatizing can cut bloated government in New Jersey
New Jersey governor Chris Christie sets up a commission to review hundreds of state regulatory bodies for closure or privatization to trim a $1 billion deficit. He may suspend civil service rules to ease layoffs, challenging union norms and echoing privatization precedents from Thatcher and Reagan.
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New Jersey
Chris Christie
Jon Corzine
Christie
Corzine
Commission
Morcaster
Margaret Thatcher
British Telecom
British Rail
Thatcher
Treasury
United States
Ronald Reagan
Conrail
Alaska Power Administration
Federal
Deadly fate of Mexican youth amid violence in Juarez
A reformatted summary notes El Heraldo’s report on how violence and drug trafficking devastate Mexican youth. Juarez tops danger lists with 191 deaths per 100,000, limited cultural and educational outlets, and few schools for 1.3 million residents, pushing teens toward crime and drugs.
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Mexico
Claudia Solera
el Heraldo
Juarez
Chave
Citizen Security Council
Nor
Teresa Almada
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