Parks grants ordered to halt
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Bee Capitol Bureau. Slamming the state for failing to adequately monitor more than $100 million in grants that lawmakers doled out for pet projects in their districts, Controller Steve Westly
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A judge has blocked the Bush administration from providing future "faith-based" grants to an Arizona mentoring group that injected religion into its publicly funded programs.
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The sale of a Highland estate is halted until it is decided  whether local people can make an offer.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that two protest groups cannot use New York City's Central Park as a site for a demonstration days before the Republican National Convention.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 31--Federal regulators have pulled the plug on permits needed to build new tide gates in the south Delta, undercutting plans to ramp up the capacity of pumps that deliver water to Central and Southern California.
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California has stopped acquiring land for state parks for the foreseeable future because it cannot afford to staff and maintain new parkland, according to a newspaper report.
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A federal judge ordered a halt to seed sales and banning any planting of the crop after March 30.
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The nations's public libraries and schools have suddenly stopped receiving federal grants for high-speed Internet service.
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By Betsy Gilliland  AIKEN - The city has set aside funding and put a task force in place to preserve open space.  Now officials need to educate the community and themselves about the best way to meet the challenge.
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The Bush administration said Wednesday it will put off until after the election a final decision on a plan to allow road building and logging on 58 million acres of remote forests where both are now prohibited.
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Federal funding for abstinence education will likely fall considerably this year as Democratic leaders said Wednesday they will let a $50 million grant program expire on June 30
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WASHINGTON - A judge has struck down more than a dozen of the government's current rules on political fund raising with just weeks before Election Day, concluding federal regulators improperly weakened the nation's campaign finance law.    U.S...
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By ASHLEY KINDERGAN, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD  If state funds for environmental preservation are allowed to dry up next year, the burden of creating and maintaining green space will fall to counties and municipalities, local officials said.
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Science & environment: Â· Major projects cancelled because of uncertaintyÂ· Planning problems will stall wind-farm growth
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Until a review has taken place An open letter to government from the doctors' association calls for a halt to the roll out of summary care records until a review has taken place.â¦
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A divided Loudoun County Board of Supervisors yesterday took a step toward prohibiting its members from taking campaign contributions from people or groups with pending development applications before the board.