Word: aid
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...While city officials report that they are managing the current budget shortfall, several say that further decreases in state aid and slowdowns from other revenue sources may cause fiscal woes—or perhaps higher taxes—in Cambridge’s future...
...Along with the cuts for the current fiscal year, the state department of revenue announced in February that aid to communities would be cut for the 2010 fiscal year...
...According to those projections, Cambridge stands to receive $7.6 million less in state aid next year than it did this year, for a total of $28 million in state funding...
...Beyond state aid and property taxes, the city has a limited number of revenue sources, which include building permits, hotel and motel taxes, and water and sewage revenues, all of which have decreased in recent months, Healy’s Feb. 2 memo reported...
...bypass hearings, public comment periods, cost-benefit analyses and other forms of scrutiny. But the Constitution does give Congress the power of the purse, and earmarks can sometimes be the only way for congressmen to force recalcitrant bureaucracies to take on worthy projects. For example, most federal transportation aid goes directly to state agencies with monomaniacal attachments to building sprawl roads; maybe that's why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has an earmark for a bike path in the latest budget...