GOP Sketches $100 Billion Budget Cut Plan
The House Budget Committee approved a five year $100 billion package to cut domestic, defense and foreign aid spending to offset revenue losses from a separate $189 billion tax cut. Democrats call the move a cut targeting the poor with double counted savings. House passage followed a 227-200 vote to trim $17 billion from housing and public broadcasting and aid for disaster states triggering a White House veto threat. Final program choices await later votes on the tax cuts.
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Clinton
House
John Kasich
Ohio
GOP
California
White House
Leon Panetta
Lifesaving service a study in black and white
A Sunday feature highlights lifesaving service lessons in a clear black and white approach. The Life column urges readers to make self defense a daily priority. It is followed by a sports note asking who will reach the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.
Landfill to be built in stages for three-county region
The Coastal Regional Solid Waste Management Authority plans a staged landfill to serve Craven Pamlico and Carteret counties for about 25 years. The executive director stresses phased expansion and exploration of better options, including waste to energy and a Vedco steam plant pilot. First cell by early 1998, with initial costs not yet set pending proposals.
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Craven
Pamlico
Carteret
Jack Guinan
Coastal Regional Solid Waste Management Authority
Crswma
Guinan
Weston Inc
Vedco Corp
Kinston
Tuscarora
Crswmaa
Weston
Perdue Lashes Out at Panel Over Grants Row
State Senator Beverly Perdue condemned conflicts of interest at the Marine Fisheries Commission during a New Bern meeting. She urged clearing up controversy over grants from the Fisheries Resource Grant Program Review Committee which approved funds to several commissioners, including Jodie Gay and Melvin Shepard, totaling over 150000 dollars of the more than 1 million budget.
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Beverly Perdue
D-Craven
State Marine Fisheries Commission
New Bern
Fisheries Resource Grant Program Review Committee
Carteret County
Jodie Gay
Melvin Shepard
General Assembly
Cochairman
Appropriations Committee
Perdue
Commission
New Bern Moose Lodge
Jim Long
Quiet Man St Patrick Day Tradition Brings Family Together
A family recalls St Patrick’s Day customs centered on watching The Quiet Man. The habit links generations through shared viewing of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in an Irish homecoming tale. Some celebrate quietly, others with lively revelry and green beer.
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St. Pat’s
John Wayne and
Maureen O'Hara
Man
Rick Hawkins
Clancy O’hara
North Carolina lawmakers strike $364 million tax cut deal
Legislative leaders end month long stalemate on taxes agreeing to 364 million in cuts down from 483 million sought by Gov. Hunt. House and Senate outline a smaller package including personal income tax, investment tax relief, and a later consideration of corporate rate cuts as Hunt presses for broader business tax reductions. Budget will fit reduced revenues. House and Senate plan to move on separate components next weeks.
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Jim Hunt
Hunt
House
Senate
Rachel Perry
Frank Ballance
D-Warren
Appropriations
Basnight
Marc Basnight
D-Dare
Harold Brubaker
Randoph
Brubaker
North Carolina
Senate Finance Committee
Toby Fitch
D-Wilson
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