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Dozens of air shows cancel without military jets
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Dozens of air shows that draw tens of thousands of people and generate millions of dollars for local economies have been cancelled this year after the military grounded its jet and demonstration teams because of automatic federal...
Tags: Military Equipment, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Business
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FACT FINDER: How are budget cuts impacting South Bend flights?
How are budget cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration – blamed for flight delays across the country – impacting travel to and from South Bend? Here's what our WSBT Fact Finder team learned: Mike Daigle with the St. Joseph County Airport...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation Delays, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace
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Sequester budget cuts take its toll locally
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – A $30 million dollar construction project in Indiana is delayed because of the sequester budget cuts. $21 million of that $30 million was supposed to be used to fix up South Bend's National Guard Armory on Kemble Avenue. Now there's...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Midway, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Air Transportation Delays
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Johnson Co. draws line on ads for police vehicles
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Businesses are advertising on a sheriff's deputy vehicle that's used for a youth education program, but don't expect to see local police cars covered with ads as though they're racecars. Johnson County Sheriff Doug Cox...Tags: Human Interest, Sales, Budgets and Budgeting, Business, Advertising
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Deficit cutters look to Pentagon budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is coming to grips with a new reality — fewer dollars. The...
Tags: Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Mick Mulvaney, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Elections
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Without trash fees, Elkhart's mayor calls for drastic budget cuts
WSBT-TVELKHART – The city of Elkhart is in for some deep budget cuts, which include keeping police and firefighters at home - unpaid. Next year's controversial spending plan still has to pass the Common Council, but it looks like these reductions will...Tags: Sports, Economy, Property Tax, Democratic Party, Budgets and Budgeting
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Gregg calls for child services department changes
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg said Monday that if elected in November he would push to restore money cut from Indiana's Department of Child Services budget in recent years and use it to promote more adoptions...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Family, Budgets and Budgeting, Health, Politics
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South Bend school board takes layoffs off table
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- After hearing pleas from more than a dozen teachers, instructional assistants and parents on Monday evening, South Bend's school board voted 4-2 against a money-saving measure to eliminate the jobs of some kindergarten aides, Explorer...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Students, Layoffs and Downsizing
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South Bend schools student count dives forcing budget cuts
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterRepresenting a discouraging trend to South Bend Community School Corp. officials, the district’s enrollment this school year has declined by twice as many students as was anticipated. Though the data from the official student count day, which was...Tags: South Bend (St. Joseph, Indiana), Budgets and Budgeting, Companies and Corporations
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Latest AM General layoffs will impact local economy
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY – The push to get U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan will cost hundreds of local workers their jobs. AM General announced Thursday morning that about 350 workers on the military side of the company will be laid off.
The cuts...Tags: Employees, Joe Donnelly, Business, Layoffs and Downsizing, Companies and Corporations
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The Big Charade
With the debt ceiling and budget talks in Washington taking center stage you would think mature adults in positions of power would do the right things. Oh, wait a minute. Doing the right thing really isn’t a priority in Washington anymore. It is all...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Iraq, Social Issues, Budgets and Budgeting, Washington (U.S. state)
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School will reopen after budget cuts forced its closure...but not without volunteers
Work is underway to reopen Eastside Elementary in Niles. But that work isn't being done by paid contractors, the school is being renovated by volunteers.
Eastside was closed last year due to budget cuts. It is being reopened in September as a magnet...Tags: Human Interest, Schools
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