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Funds for pine-beetle battle gains support in Legislature
PIERRE — County governments should receive a total of $2 million in additional state financial assistance for fighting infestations of pine beetles, the state Senate decided Tuesday night. Sen. Bob Ewing, R-Spearfish, said it would help...Tags: Agriculture, Stan Adelstein, U.S. Senate
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10 Things to Know: School funds, GFP bonds among topics
Editor's note: As part of the coverage of the 2013 legislative session, the American News will provide, on most days, a list of 10 pieces of information helpful to understanding what is — and sometimes isn’t — happening at the state...Tags: Justice System, Larry Rhoden, U.S. Senate, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's automatic budget cuts mean there will be less financial incentive to turn in tax cheats. In a notice on its website, the Internal Revenue Service said it would pay 8.7% less to informants who blow the whistle on...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Internal Revenue Service, Government Debt, Politics, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Key Senate panel approves Medi-Cal expansion
SACRAMENTO -- A key Senate panel supported legislation Monday that would dramatically expand Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for the poor. The proposal, authored by state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) and Senate leader Darrell...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Darrell Steinberg, Ted Gaines, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Might a tax holiday cure slow economy?
PIERRE — As taxpayer relief and job incentives go, the best idea of the 2013 legislative session never stood a chance. That was the proposal from Sen. Tim Begalka to phase out South Dakota’s 2 percent contractor’s excise tax....Tags: Rentals, Business, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Unemployment
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U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine
Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, National Institutes of Health, White House, Politics, Research
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Sequester could close towers at five state airports, LaHood says
Five regional and local airports could see their control towers close on April 1 if across-the-board spending cuts take effect next week Friday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday. Hagerstown Regional Airport and Salisbury-Ocean City...Tags: Ocean City, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Ray LaHood, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland)
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Government sequestration could affect Hagerstown Regional Airport
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comWith less than a week remaining before federal budget cuts could go into effect, federal agencies and parks, the military, hospitals, doctors, and Hagerstown Regional Airport, prepare for the ramifications if Congress fails to pass legislation to avoid it...Tags: Social Security, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Ray LaHood, Unemployment
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Ag's role in education funding questioned
PIERRE - The statewide tax levies for general education would increase next year on commercial property and owner-occupied homes, but agricultural property would see its levy go down, under a key piece of school-funding legislation from the Daugaard...Tags: Students, Religion and Belief, Politics, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Bank offers $1.3 million for Md. affordable housing projects
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta has agreed to provide $1.3 million to fund affordable housing projects in Baltimore and Cecil County, Maryland's U.S. senators announced Wednesday. "As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I have...Tags: Rentals, Cecil County, Capital Bank Corporation, Barbara A. Mikulski, Harbor
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Kathleen Kane sworn in as PA's new state Attorney General.
Capitol IdeasVowing to roll up her sleeves and “just get it done,” Kathleen G. Kane was sworn into office as Pennsylvania’s new attorney general on Tuesday, becoming the first woman and the first Democrat to serve as the state’s top law...... -
Harris appointed to House Appropriations
Baltimore County Republican Rep. Andy Harris was appointed to serve on the powerful House Appropriations Committee on Thursday, giving the state another voice in how federal dollars are spent. Harris, is in his second term representing the Eastern Shore...
Tags: Republican Party, Roscoe G Bartlett, Jo Ann Emerson, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
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Feb 23, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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