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Lisa M. O’Loughlin, who was entering the Harvard Square station yesterday, said that the repeated rise in ride fares has made her question the MBTA’s management of its budget...
...We’ve said repeatedly that without some help to deal with our budget deficit, we’ll have to close the deficit gap down by raising fares or closing services,” Pesaturo said. “If the legislature does approve the bill, then there would be no need to raise fares...
...hasn’t changed.“What we haven’t done is put up prices in the last 7 years,” she said.Harvest, which serves high-end New England cuisine, has lost out on much of its usual corporate dining due to company budget cutbacks and firms going under. But on the other hand, the cheaper menu options have been getting more traffic.“We definitely see more bar business,” Law said.—Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Which is probably why President Barack Obama has gone out of his way to court these moderates, whose votes he desperately needs to pass the biggest bill yet: his $3.6 trillion 2010 budget resolution. Ever since the President laid out the broad outlines of his ambitious budget, moderate Democrats like Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper have been struggling with how to embrace such a large budget on top of all the money that has already been spent; those who are up for re-election next year may be particularly inclined to vote against the budget because...
...moderate concerns, Obama took steps to make his budget more transparent, a point his team never tires of pointing out. He included items that President George W. Bush did not to obscure the true operating cost of the government, such as the money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an annual multibillion-dollar fix of the fees that Medicare pays physicians and Alternative Minimum Tax relief for the middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat...