Archive of Delaware on Tuesday November 03, 2009
DE: 2011 budget hearings begin
By James Merriweather, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
State agencies began presenting their spending plans to Markell administration budget writers Monday, after having received strict orders not to increase spending and being warned to prepare to cut as much as 10 percent more if conditions worsen.
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DE: Jersey sues to halt dredging plan
By Jeff Montgomery, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey on Monday filed a federal lawsuit in Trenton to block Army Corps of Engineers plans to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel, accusing the federal agency of ignoring environmental permit and study requirements.
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NJ: N.J. joins Delaware in suing to block dredging of Delaware
By Linda Loyd, The Philadelphia Inquirer
In what has become a quagmire of politics, turf, and divided interests, the New Jersey attorney general yesterday followed the State of Delaware's Friday lead and sued to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from deepening the Delaware River.
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DE: State sheds vacant jobs to fix budget
By J.L. Miller, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Top state officials have been spending the last few months learning how to do without -- without 500 to 525 employees.
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Spending limits, gambling top fiscal 2009 ballot measures
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
The national spotlight may be focused Nov. 3 on elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, but voters elsewhere could take action to profoundly change the way their states get and spend taxpayers’ money.
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