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...courts, which make up 2% of the state budget, have thus joined the slash-and-cut regimen that has befallen school districts, cities, and social services across California as the state deals with a $21 billion shortfall this year. (That comes on the heels of last year's $40 billion deficit.) (See how California's crisis has hit its prized universities...
...drastic measures," said McCoy. With annual court budget deficits expected to be as high as $140 million over the next four years, court officials say up to 1,800 staff positions may be eliminated. Last year, the California judicial council instituted a one-day per month closure of all state courts as both a cost-savings. "The unintended yet inevitable symbolism of 'Closed' signs on our courthouses - institutions that embody our nation's revered democratic ideas - is a graphic indication of the severity of California's economic crisis," said California Chief Justice Ronald George addressing the state legislature last year...
...militant Islamist group Hamas, is hardly Mexico. But North Sinai's significance in the broader scheme of Egyptian national security is huge. Egypt fears spillover from Gaza's internal crises and has warned of foreign-terrorist infiltration via the tunnels. Asked about a recent protest outside a state security center by several dozen Bedouin women who were demanding trials or release for their loved ones, the governor only chuckled and said, "You are a journalist or you are from the human rights [organizations]?" (See "Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins...
Local authorities are extremely sensitive about the state of the Bedouin, even if it is reporting on how Bedouin feel about the government. In February, TIME published an article that chronicled the lives and politics of Bedouin who were at odds with the Egyptian government. TIME's sources ranged from wealthy arms smugglers to village farmers and the impoverished desert inhabitants of huts made of twigs. But the sentiments they expressed were the same: The Egyptian government had failed them. Not only that, but in some communities, anger at government neglect and mistreatment ran so high that Bedouin said they...
Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula from 1967 to 1982, and despite a cold peace between the two states for the past three decades, intense animosity toward the Jewish state continues to dominate the Egyptian national consciousness. To the authorities of North Sinai, then, the sheer notion that there were Bedouin willing to side with Israel over Egypt constituted nothing short of the most serious treason. "Journalists should depend on official sources," declared Mosaad Arug, a member of the North Sinai local council, in a meeting convened to confront TIME's reporter about the story. "The people...