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Federal
Senate Opens Path to Seating Blagojevich Pick
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StateMassachusetts May Mandate Restaurant Calorie Posting
TechnologyNew York City Parks’
Wi-Fi Project Collapses
Schwarzenegger: Cut
School Year by Five Days
D.C. Airport Rail Project
Gets Federal Green Light
Report: Voting Fixes Needed
for Overseas Military
CDC: Teen Pregnancy Rising
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DAILY DIGIT
More than $1 billion
Amount spent by California to battle wildfires in 2008, a figure that doesn't include approximately $700 million spent last year by the U.S. Forest service on wildfire suppression in the state
EVENTS
Feb. 3-4, 2009
Outlook in the States and Localities, Washington, D.C.
May 27-29, 2009
Managing Technology, Minneapolis
I’m a one-man band. And if I don’t do my job, it’s kind of noticeable. People turn on their water and nothing comes out.”
Management Second Spin Who will replace all those retiring baby boomers? How about more boomers. |
ManagementThe Lure of the LayoffThere are plenty of costly mistakes to make when you try to balance a budget through hiring freezes, personnel cuts or early retirements, warn Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene. |
Management InsightsLeaky Roofs and WindowsLet's use this downturn to collapse the barriers that make programs less useful to consumers, inefficient to operate and unable to meet changing circumstances, writes Feather O'Connor Houstoun. |
Assessments Stimulating City Halls America's city halls illustrate the good and bad ways stimulus money can be used to renovate government buildings. |
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Finance
Don’t Squander the Stimulus!
As President-elect Obama and Congress finalize the language for the stimulus package, Girard Miller has a simple tip for them: Don't give money away without requiring a hefty matching state or local government contribution. 
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