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Saturday, 18 January 2020

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EDITORIAL: Communicating with citizens works better

The Daily Gazette 18 Jan 2020

Neighbors used the city’s original estimates to drum up neighborhood support for the program, only to learn later what the real costs would be ... Now, because of the cost overruns and the bad publicity associated with the residents’ complaints, a potentially worthwhile program is threatened even before city officials can work the bugs out of it....

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Opinion: Aging out of foster care can mean misery ahead

Atlanta Journal 18 Jan 2020

An estimated 71 percent of girls are pregnant in their first year out of foster care ... Department of Health and Human Resources estimates that foster kids who age out and fail to make a life for themselves cost taxpayers $350 million a year in lost productivity, incarceration and welfare and other government assistance programs....

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Cascade County introduces pretrial release program as a response to chronic jail overcrowding

Great Falls Tribune 18 Jan 2020

In order to combat the issue of overcrowding, the county commission, sheriff and county attorney in cooperation with local district court judges have worked to develop a pretrial supervision program that went into effect this past Wednesday ... All counties introduced the PSA through a pilot program....

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Utah public comment period closes for Lake Powell Pipeline

The Salt Lake Tribune 18 Jan 2020

More than 1,100 public comments were submitted for the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline designed to pump water to two southern Utah counties, program officials said. The proposed 140-mile road is estimated to cost between $1 billion to $1.7 billion, The Spectrum reported ... U.S ... ....

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Second Harvest is rescuing restaurants' unsold food to feed the community

The Advocate 18 Jan 2020

Good Eats Kitchen is one of a handful of Lafayette area businesses participating in Second Harvest’s new Rescue Runner program ... Natasha Curley, food sourcing specialist for Second Harvest, said launching the program has been a longtime personal goal ... Janis Thomas said the program is just as easy for the volunteers....

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Washington state can’t tell if housing tax exemption working

Waco Tribune-Herald 18 Jan 2020

A 2019 legislative audit of the multifamily property tax exemption program blames the lack of clarity, in part, on inconsistent tracking of the program by some of the cities that use it ... Local jurisdictions, including Tacoma, Olympia, Auburn and Pierce County, use the program as a means of encouraging the development of badly needed housing....

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Senate race puts spotlight on differences

Arkansas Online 18 Jan 2020

He also said a consultant to the Legislature's health reform task force estimated that repealing the program would cost the state about $189 million a year, "so if you add all those six years up and we are talking about $1.2 billion that it would cost us if we did not have it, versus $244 million to have it."....

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Homeowners continue to seek clarity on sidewalk program

The Daily Gazette 17 Jan 2020

SCHENECTADY — Following a speed bump that saw the city bill Ardsley Road homeowners double the estimated cost to replace their sidewalks as part of a new pilot program, residents awaiting the next batch continue to harbor concerns over the program’s transparency ... cost estimates....

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Zavanna spill on Little Muddy was part of hydraulic fracturing job

Williston Herald 17 Jan 2020

An oil company that was pumping water out of the Little Muddy River near Williston for a well completion job released some hydraulic oil from a heating unit when a seal failed, according to reports from the Department of Environmental Quality’s Spill Investigation Program....

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Communities struggle as recycling costs soar to nearly twice that of trash disposal

Union Leader 17 Jan 2020

continue the current single stream recycling program and absorb the extra cost, convert back to a recycling program where all of the material is sorted, implement a hybrid recycling program where glass is separated or suspend the recycling program altogether and treat everything as trash....

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Lawmakers propose taxpayers pay for first two years of college

The Telegraph - Alton 17 Jan 2020

SPRINGFIELD — Another measure has been filed to create a taxpayer-funded program to ensure Illinois residents have their first two years of college tuition paid for ... The program would be implemented through the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which could set parameters on who is eligible ... Statewide programs can be expensive....

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Letter: Illinois government spending is hurting the middle class

Rockford Register Star 17 Jan 2020

... the sales tax on gasoline, which is estimated to cost the average household $300 annually....

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Pentagon to continuously monitor, restrict travel for foreign service members training at US bases

Stars and Stripes 17 Jan 2020

Once the new security procedures are in place at installations that host foreign troops throughout the United States, the programs can then restart ... Senior defense officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they had no estimate of when the procedures would be in place, allowing the training programs to resume....