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Mar 12 2024
News
Monroe Town Council sends municipal budget to the finance board
MONROE, CT — Town Council members agreed to make a donation to The Center for Family Justice, restore library funds for staffing of the Makerspace at Edith Wheeler Memorial Library, and engaged in debate over grant writing and the social worker’s hours, before approving a $32,354,075 municipal budget Monday night. Now the Board of Finance will review it as part of the $103.67 million town
Monroe SunApr 18 2024
News
Airbnb's Ellie Mertz on becoming finance chief: 'Part of the CFO's role is to steady the ship, no matter what the waters look like'
Good morning. Airbnb’s new finance chief has experience steeped in strategy. Ellie Mertz, who took over as CFO on March 1, joined the short-term rental company in 2013 and has been integral in helping to revolutionize short-term stays. Cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky called her his “right hand for nearly 11 years” and said that “under her leadership, our company grew from adolescence to
FortuneApr 23 2024
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Biden To Push Abortion Rights In FL Campaign Stop
President Joe Biden will appear in Tampa on April 23, a week ahead of the state implementing a strict abortion ban six weeks into pregnancy. That’s no coincidence. Officials with the Biden-Kamala Harris campaign reiterated to press ahead of the visit that the new law makes Florida a battleground, regardless of solid GOP performance here in recent election cycles. “We take Florida very
JoeMyGodApr 12 2016
Candidate Stances
Should US Election Campaigns Be Publicly Financed?
The 2016 Presidential candidate stances on public financing of campaigns.
ProCon.orgMar 19 2024
News
Pawtucket school finances 'in rough shape' as cash dries up
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Pawtucket school committee members say they’re struggling to pay the district’s bills as officials warn a looming cash shortage poses a threat to the entire city’s finances, Target 12 has learned. At a meeting last Thursday, Pawtucket School Committee Chairman Gerard Charbonneau said while the issue has been growing for roughly a year, committee members only started
WPRI 12Mar 03 2016
News
How Campaign Finance Reform Contributed to Polarization
One of the more compelling arguments for campaign finance reform has long been that it would undermine partisanship. After all, a great deal of money goes to political parties. Cut off the money to them, and you undermine their influence over candidates and elected officials, right?
If these issues concern you, I strongly encourage you to read Ray La Raja and Brian Schaffner's
Pacific StandardJan 04 2016
News
How Campaign Finance Reform Contributed to Polarization
One of the more compelling arguments for campaign finance reform has long been that it would undermine partisanship. After all, a great deal of money goes to political parties. Cut off the money to them, and you undermine their influence over candidates and elected officials, right?
Pacific StandardOct 11 2015
News
From Fracking to Finance, a Torrent of Campaign Cash
A look at some of the business, personal and ideological ties that bind megadonors in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The great American energy boom of the last decade has produced a wave of new billionaires and multimillionaires. Now they are throwing tens of millions of dollars into the presidential campaign, with the biggest checks going almost exclusively to Republicans and their “
New York Times (News)Mar 30 2024
News
Navajo Nation solar power plant, meant to help with electrification, gets federal financing
SALT LAKE CITY — A new 72-megawatt solar farm on Navajo Nation land in southeastern Utah — big enough to power 36,000 homes — now has long-term federal financing to cover the cost of the project. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Utah announced this week it is putting up $76.5 million to help with costs of the Red Mesa Tapaha Solar Farm, which was inaugurated in August. Lack of
KSLJul 21 2015
Opinion
The Only Realistic Way to Fix Campaign Finance
FOR the first time in modern history, the leading issue concerning voters in the upcoming presidential election, according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, is that “wealthy individuals and corporations will have too much influence over who wins.” Five years after the Supreme Court gave corporations and unions the right to spend unlimited amounts in political campaigns, voters
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