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Rogge says global crisis won't hurt Olympic cities

AP — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:22:09 +0000

IOC president Jacques Rogge says the global financial crisis should not hurt preparations for upcoming Olympics.

Gates: Spending for National Guard reaches record

AP — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:58:32 +0000

Funding for the National Guard has reached a record level amid the largest mobilization of America’s citizen soldiers since World War II, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said...

Gates: Record spending for National Guard

AP — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:09:57 +0000

Funding for the National Guard has reached a record level amid the largest mobilization of America’s citizen soldiers since World War II, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said...

NY lawmaker: Yankee subsidies hit taxpayers, fans

AP — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:15:55 +0000

A New York lawmaker says taxpayers and ticket buyers are the losers in plans to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies to build the new Yankee...

Chicago public ridership is up, but so are losses

AP — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:57:55 +0000

The nation’s second-largest transit system announced $40 million in belt-tightening measures, despite a more than 5 percent ridership surge in 2008 compared to last...

Report: China earthquake fund $180 billion short

AP — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:59:09 +0000

China’s Sichuan province has about a quarter of the money it needs to rebuild after a devastating earthquake in May that left 90,000 people dead or missing and destroyed much of its infrastructure, a state-controlled newspaper said...

Back to school for Chicago public school students

AP — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:46:24 +0000

Public school students who skipped classes to protest unequal education funding were urged to return to their desks Thursday after the boycott was prematurely called...

Organizers call off 2-day Chicago school boycott

AP — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:52:06 +0000

Organizers have called off a boycott of Chicago Public Schools staged to protest Illinois’ education funding system.

School funding protest extends to downtown Chicago

AP — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:33:29 +0000

Chicago students skipping classes to protest Illinois’ school funding system received some education Wednesday in the lobbies of downtown Chicago government and business buildings, where retired teachers set up impromptu...

Chicago students skip school in funding protest

AP — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:41:41 +0000

Hundreds of Chicago public school students boycotted the first day of classes Tuesday to protest unequal school funding and instead rode buses more than 30 miles north to try to enroll in a wealthy suburban...