Pennsylvania shuts services amid budget impasse
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Pennsylvania idled some 25,000 state workers and shut down non-critical services early on Monday after Republican lawmakers and Democratic Governor Ed Rendell failed to agree on measures he set as a precondition for signing a budget for the new fiscal year.
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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm ordered government offices to shut on Monday if the state's divided legislature cannot come to terms on a budget that would include higher taxes.
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Budget cuts and old habits may interfere with good intentions.
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In many parts of the country, state and local governments are struggling to pay for roads, bridges and other projects because of rising construction costs.
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The drumbeat of bad news about TennCare moved to a routine state departmental budget hearing yesterday afternoon, while negotiations closed to the public continued in an effort to save the pricey health-care program.
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A worsening housing market, including rising foreclosures, has rapidly pushed Fairfax County government into a budget crisis that probably will last several years, pinching spending by hundreds of millions of dollars on schools, public safety and human services, officials said yesterday.
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Policy changes and severe budget cuts at the Small Business Association have left the agency unable to fulfill its mission.
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 21--The crisis grew clear after midnight when the display in front  of Cathy Schaufelberger showed her that power could soon run out for untold  numbers of people.
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Angry forest service workers blocked highways, halted trains and forced an airport to shut down on Thursday, effectively cutting off the southern toe of Italy in a protest against spending cuts that could cost hundreds of jobs. The demonstrations across Calabria, the region that makes up the tip of the Italian boot, are the latest by state sector workers upset by the belt-tightening 2005 budget and follows a general strike last week.
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A plan to require tens of millions of additional dollars a year in state spending on education in Montgomery and Prince George's counties has stalled in the Maryland General Assembly amid concerns about looming state budget deficits.
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Gov. Ed Rendell late Sunday ordered a range of state government services shut down and placed about a third of the state work force on indefinite unpaid furlough after frantic last-minute negotiations failed to break a budget stalemate.
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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 21--RICHMOND -- Two hardware failures in the state's central computer system forced Department of Motor Vehicles offices to close early Wednesday and created problems for other government agencies.
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Kester Wholesale, once among the biggest floral wholesalers in Maryland, closed late last month, due to competition from Internet florists and direct buying from growers.
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Pennsylvanians will be unable to take a driver's license test, visit a state-run museum or place a casino bet starting Monday unless an 11th-hour breakthrough ends a budget stalemate that threatens a partial government shutdown.
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The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip ordered the shutdown Monday of private clinics run by doctors loyal to the West Bank-based Fatah government, a new blow to a medical system already crippled by the Palestinian power struggle.
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The hard luck Back Bay Holiday Market at Prudential Center was shut down for about five hours yesterday by the Boston Public Health Commission, prompting one merchant to say she plans to leave.
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Slot machines could be ringing and dealers could be shuffling again in New Jersey&#039;s casinos as soon as Friday evening after lawmakers and Gov. John S. Corzine reached a state budget deal that could end a six-day government shutdown.