Debunking debt reduction, focusing on social wealth

Debunking debt reduction, focusing on social wealth San Antonio Express-News Copyright 2012 San Antonio Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 07:06 p.m., Tuesday, January 17, 2012 What we really need, as Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz point out in recent columns, is to get over ...

Markets warm to European debt, Portugal pressure eases

Cautious optimism that the euro zone crisis may be turning a corner fuelled demand for European government debt on Wednesday, easing pressure on Portugal, seen as the most vulnerable country after Greece. ...

ICC ponders cutting nonmandated programs

VALATIE — At the second of six community forums to develop the 2012-2013 school budget for the Ichabod Central School District, the Board of Education presented the possibility of reduction or elimination of nonmandated programs and high school electives plus new uses for the Martin H. Glynn and Martin Van Buren elementary schools.

US mustn't gut defense spending

As we sit here on Guam and in the CNMI, the most western piece of our nation's sovereign soil and at tip of our country's strategic spear, the Obama administration works to force a definitive reduction in our nation's military spending. Don't forget the DOD budget cuts were a result of the debt-ceiling debate from last year and the Budget Control Act passed in August 2011.

Sports, extracurriculars on Boone budget table - more programs at stake

The Daniel Boone School Board’s Jan. 23 budget workshop illustrated - with pie charts - the impact of the district’s contracted services and debt services that total 95 percent ($50,072,681) of the 2012-13 budget and exceed the anticipated revenues of $49,295,342.