San Jose Mercury News, USA
But that was when the city budget was propped up with property tax revenue that fell this year as the housing bubble burst. Sales tax revenue has fallen, too, and in December, Santa Cruz began cutting services and staff to meet an $8 million deficit. …
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The homeowner's monthly housing costs potentially could be halved, EARN said. The city would have an equity stake in the home. It would get repaid when the home is sold (assuming it sells for more than today's price) and would also receive half of the …
Forbes
San Jose Mercury News, USA -
By John Woolfolk San Jose City Manager Debra Figone's proposal Thursday to close a $77.5 million budget deficit would lay off as many as 149 employees, close libraries nearly half the week, eliminate the police mounted patrol and reduce traffic …
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The $4.5 million deficit represents about a 12.5 percent cut to city revenue. Other city funds also are hurting, Pimentel said. The library, for example, receives most of its funding from sales taxes. Foreclosures and housing vacancies have left the …
San Jose Mercury News, USA -
The $4.5 million deficit represents about a 12.5 percent cut to city revenue. Other city funds also are hurting, Pimentel said. The library, for example, receives most of its funding from sales taxes. Foreclosures and housing vacancies have left the …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The goal is to attack poverty-fueling crisis areas: the high cost of food, housing and health care, as well as school dropout rates and low-paying jobs. The strategy now being worked on chips away at each area through reshaped public policy initiatives …
New York Times
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - President Obama said Saturday that he will soon announce “the elimination of dozens of government programs shown to be wasteful or ineffective,” and used his weekly radio address to name two …
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Macworld, CA
After about five minutes this resolved itself, but when it did, the shared iPhoto library from my Mac Pro was nowhere to be seen. Thinking this was an issue with the iPhoto Sharing preference, I attempted to access it, only to be greeted by the …
CNET News, CA
Occasionally blow some wood smoke into their cells as they're trying to get to sleep. by AppleRocks1963 April 10, 2009 3:53 PM PDT If it's restored then why is our DSL through AT&T still dog-slow on many web sites here in Silicon Valley?
Bloomberg
By Angela Macdonald-Smith March 23 (Bloomberg) — Qantas Airways Ltd. is set to cut as many as 100 senior executive jobs in a reorganization to cope with a slump in global air travel, the Australian Financial Review said, citing people it didn’t …
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