Word: marion
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...city is currently suffering from serious economic hardship and many have blamed Kelly and her successor, current mayor Marion Barry, for the fiscal problems...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich met with Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry today, as congressional auditors reported that the nation's capitol is "insolvent." Congress' General Accounting Office reports that the city already is unable to pay some bills, and will run out of money this summer as hundreds of millions of dollars worth of deferred Medicaid payments and other obligations come due. The city council is preparing to lay off thousands of workers to try to close a $772 million budget gap. Washington has limited home rule, with congressional oversight, because it is a district and not part...
Facing an estimated shortfall of $722 million, the equivalent of 22% of the city's budget, Washington Mayor Marion Barry announced his response: a severe diet of job cutbacks and reductions in city services. Potentially most painful, however, was his request that the Federal Government take on $267 million in city Medicaid costs, and consider paying for even more services in the future. The appeal could reopen the question of how much home rule Congress should accord the District...
...time when most state governments are clamoring for more local control, the District of Columbia wants just the opposite--less. In an extraordinary press conference last week, Mayor Marion Barry asked the Federal Government to take over many of the city's most important services. Acknowledging for the first time publicly that the city is on the verge of bankruptcy, Barry said the District could no longer run itself and asked for $267 million in federal aid to pay off a staggering Medicaid bill...
What's cool about Marion, Indian (his hometown): We have the best thrifts stores of any town. I don't think Marion prides itself on that, but we have three really great thrift stores. I lover garage sale, and there are great garage sales in the summer...