12/03/2008
Localities struggle to keep coffers full (Daily Press)
Tax revenue in the region is expected to come up short for everything from hotel stays to meals to vehicles R etail sales are down. Fewer-than-expected tourists are staying in hotels. Gas-guzzling trucks and vans are depreciating at more than double the usual rate because high fuel prices earlier this year drove down the demand for big vehicles. Property assessments next year will start to ...
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12/03/2008
MMDA report ranks Pasig 3rd in road mishaps (Yehey!)
The Metro Manila Development Authority, in its year-to-September accident report and analysis, said Pasig City ranked third among 17 component localities, notching 14 deaths, 496 non-fatal injuries and 3,365 cases of damage to property.
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12/03/2008
York predicts no budget shortfall (The Virginia Gazette)
YORK - County administrator James McReynolds announced Tuesday night that the county is projected to come in on budget this year. That defies the trend in Williamsburg and James City where the localities are projecting $975,000 and $3 million, respectively, in revenue shortfalls.
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12/03/2008
Hawaii endorses electric vehicle grid (International Herald Tribune)
Plan includes recharging stations where drivers could exchange batteries.
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12/02/2008
Recession worries dominate Government meeting (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Presiding over the Government’s regular meeting for November convened for two days (December 1-2), PM Nguyen Tan Dung once again urged all echelons, sectors, localities and enterprises to proactively make efforts to prevent economic recession, guarantee growth rate and social security.
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12/03/2008
Radford council prepares for further budget cuts - roanoke.com (The New River Valley Current)
State aid to localities is expected to continue shrinking during the 2009-10 budget cycle. RADFORD -- City council got its first look at what next year's budget might look like in a Monday evening meeting -- and it doesn't look pretty at all. Nothing was settled during the meeting, but lots of things were discussed: raising taxes, cutting services, raising electricity rates, cutting ...
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12/03/2008
Hawaii Endorses Plan for a ‘Better Place’ (New York Times)
The State of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Electric Company on Tuesday endorsed an effort to build an alternative transportation system based on electric vehicles with swappable batteries and an “intelligent” battery recharging network, The New York Times’s John Markoff reported.
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12/03/2008
Grim State Budget Forecast Ups Anxiety (Washington Post)
State legislators brought bleak budget projections to officials in Northern Virginia yesterday, increasing the anxiety of local governments scurrying to find spending cuts.
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12/02/2008
Outstanding microentrepreneurs and credit officers honoured at Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards (Nhân Dân)
Nhan Dan Online - Fifty one outstanding microentrepreneurs and credit officers from different localities across Vietnam were recognised for their achievements at the 2008 Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards which was held on December 1 in Hanoi.
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12/03/2008
Hawaii Endorses Plan for Electric Cars (New York Times)
The plan, the brainchild of the former Silicon Valley software executive Shai Agassi, is an attempt to overcome the major hurdles to electric cars.
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