I see that the financial affairs of Burlington are now to be decided on a "need to know" basis, according to the Kiss administration. Ed Adrian, city councilor and member of the governance committee, sent a letter to Kiss asking for BT information to ...
The Burlington Politburo, er, Council, finds time to explore such economically advantageous ideas like providing laptops to all Burlingtonians, because, you know, our children are at risk. Small children needs laptops like I need antlers on my head ...
To me, a SmartGrid sounds a lot like what a market does all on its own - it aggregates hundreds/thousands/millions of decisions involving demand and supply, and results in a price that reflects all the demand and capacity constraints in the market. In ...
* The percentage of state highway system pavement rated in “very poor condition” has already climbed from 23% early in the decade to 36% in 2009 and is headed higher. * 48% of the total bridge deck area in the state is between 31 and 50 years old. * ...
Even though 17 million dollars might seem like chump change compared to trillions being spent by our representatives in Washington, 17 million divided by 40,000 is $425 per Burlington resident. The City of Burlington just spent $425 per person of ...
Newt Gingrich and Dan Varroney in their Clarion Call for Jobs (Forbes magazine) advocate for several steps that would decrease current unemployment and actually improve job growth. Immediately. No stimulus spending required. Gee, how can one do ...
The measure calls on the Defense Department to develop recommendations "regarding how to penalize contractors repeatedly involved in fraud in connection with contracts or other transactions entered into with the federal government." There are already ...
From the article: They may be motivated by the reality that California's steeply progressive tax rates are defeating the purposes of progressive government. To wit, only a growing economy can create opportunity for the middle class and enough state ...
Friday's Freeps has an article describing Burlington as being in the "top quarter" for metropolitan regions in terms of GRP growth in 2009. As the author notes, the details as to what sectors drove the growth are not available in the data, yet - but ...
“Sadly to my mind we are about to send a bunch of people to the unemployment line who don’t need to be there,” said Jes Kraus, VSEA director. He predicted state programs would be decimated. “You can’t just cut your way out of a recession,” Kraus said. “ ...
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