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...open their libraries to the public.LIVE, WORK, OR PLAYAndrew Farrar, Ward’s campaign manager and adviser, listed Ward’s accomplishments thus far: the new councillor has promoted a family-oriented focus for the city during his time on the Council. Ward also considered proposing a bill that would protect families facing foreclosure, Farrar said. In addition, he cited Ward’s involvement in mediating parking negotiations between residents of subsidized housing and Harvard realty.Ward has also discussed solutions for balancing the city’s goals for development and open space.“People...
...Straddling the Washington-Texas divide has been difficult for Hutchison. While Perry has been outspoken in rejecting federal unemployment funds, saying they would result in increased premiums for Texas employers, Senator Hutchison has been criticized for a less-than-clear stand on the issue. She voted against the stimulus bill, then said Perry should find a way to take the benefits without burdening employers in the future...
...Florida officials are making their own surge, which is only fitting given that appallingly lax state oversight earlier in the decade allowed just about any crook to become a mortgage broker. Five people were busted in Miami on Thursday in a $4.5 million straw buyer scam. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum this month filed a civil lawsuit against a number of alleged loan-modification scam artists on behalf of scores if not hundreds of people, most of them facing foreclosure, who claim they paid upfront fees as high as $3,000 to have their mortgage terms improved so they could...
...Spokesperson Ini Tomeu said that there have not yet been meetings about Wednesday’s House budget, but that budget hearings will take place soon.Beside cutting local aid, the state budget will impact a wide range of state programs and services. The budget looks to eliminate the Quinn Bill, which increases the salary of police officers who earn college degrees, and will cut $5.9 million in aid for public libraries, $2.8 million for suicide prevention programs, and $16 million for community-based services for the elderly and disabled.In forming the budget, the House Committee on Ways and Means relied...
Asked when he would draft a new bill to allow Mexicans to work legally in the United States, Obama was also evasive. "I voted twice for comprehensive immigration reform that would have provided a pathway for legalization and improvement of the orderly path of migrants into the United States," he said. "We came close to getting that kind of a reform done several years ago and then it became politicized. My whole goal is to remove the politics out of this and take a very practical commonsense approach." An estimated six million of the 11 million Mexicans currently working...