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The Big Apple’s budget will swell to a record-breaking $106.7 billion in 2024 because of the surging migrant crisis, inflation, and a string of new labor deals, Mayor Eric Adams is slated to announce later Wednesday, The Post has learned. The budget deal, which will be formally announced at 2 p.m., is a $4 billion increase over what the mayor had pitched in his fiscal proposal back in January. Hizzoner said the increase in spending will be offset by $1 billion in new state grants that will go toward covering the $1.4 billion the city has already forked over for...

Obama Steals Food From The Poor To Pay For Michele’s ‘Let’s Move’ Program Posted 6 hours ago by Dave Jolly Filed under Entitlements, Ethics, Government Spending, Liberalism, Politics Millions of food stamp recipients are finding their government supplement smaller this month. The federal government made sizeable cuts to the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) otherwise known as food stamps. This cut will affect 47.6 million Americans or about 1 out of every 6 people. Under the new guidelines, a family of 4 will see their food stamps drop from $668 a month to $632 a month. While $36 dollars doesn’t...

In loving memory of Anthony Eugene "Budge" Rahe, Jr. December 3, 1934 - February 1, 2011 Anthony "Budge" Rahe, Jr., 76, of Pine Bluff, died Monday, February 1, 2011. He was born December 3, 1934 in Houston, Texas, son of the late Anthony Rahe, Sr. and Margaret Insirillo Rahe. Mr. Rahe was reared and received his early education in Houston, graduating from Beaumont High School. After moving to Pine Bluff, Budge worked as a radio disk jockey for KOTN for many years and recently as a Wal-Mart greeter. Survivors include two nephews, Kyle Ponder and Brad Ponder. Memorial services will...

The passing of Anthony "Budge" Rahe

I received a message from a good friend of Budge's telling me that he had passed away either last night or this morning. I don't know any particulars yet. I got an email from him just yesterday. I know Budge had lots of friends on FR and was active for many years and attended numerous events. I thought y'all would want to know.

Pitfalls of Subsidized Energy by: Alanna Hultz, April 01, 2009 At the Heritage Foundation recently, Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Doug Koplow, Founder, Earth Track, Ben Lieberman, Senior Policy Analyst, Energy and Environment at the Heritage Foundation and Peter Bradford, Vermont Law School, discussed the role of subsidies in energy policy and answered the question, is subsidizing commercial energy projects the best way for America to achieve it’s energy goals? Lewis was the first speaker and he said “the leading sales pitch to get government support on energy-subsidizing projects is, if we have a green new deal we...

DRESDEN, Germany - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and challenger Angela Merkel battled over a last remaining seat in parliament Friday, hoping to get an edge in a weekend vote and end Germany's political stalemate. Merkel suggested that Sunday's balloting in the eastern city of Dresden might prompt Schroeder to back off his bid to stay in the chancellery. But Schroeder showed no sign of yielding, reminding voters of his popular opposition to the war in Iraq and calling his rivals "not fit" to govern because they couldn't stand up to "big partners" — such as the United States. The rest of...

"Budge" with a very liberal friend in his home "casino" in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Lacking votes to pass the budget, House Republican leaders struck a deal yesterday with conservative members who had demanded reforms to the spending process. The deal is a major win for the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) and signaled a rare concession from powerful GOP leaders. Republican leaders had charged that the reform demanded by members of the RSC would tie the leadership’s hands and empower House Democrats. But realizing that they would otherwise lack the votes to pass the budget this week, the GOP leaders yesterday agreed to conservatives’ demand that waiving budget rules for future spending bills require...

To put it bluntly, everything you read today by sportswriters about tournament tennis prior to 1968 and the advent of the big-money professional game is completely wrong. For one thing, between 1930 and 1968 very few champions or top players were rich young men. Far from it....Perhaps from a distance they looked rich when they were tennis stars. They behaved like gentlemen. It was insisted upon.... But beginning in 1968, a strange reversal occurred. The teenagers could not act like adults because the adults -- even on Ivy League campuses -- had joined the kids, adopting their distinctive music, hair...

<p>SACRAMENTO - In at least a half-dozen states, Republican governors and legislators have bucked their party's aversion to taxes and reluctantly pushed increases to deal with unprecedented budget shortfalls that have wracked state governments.</p> <p>Not in California.</p> <p>Republicans aren't budging on their ``no new taxes'' pledge. Democrats, for their part, oppose deeper spending cuts. The standoff has paralyzed the Legislature, which -- short of a miracle -- will fail to meet its constitutional deadline to enact a budget by midnight tonight.</p>

<p>AUGUSTA, Maine (AP ) Gov. Angus King warned Wednesday that Maine's projected $180 million budget deficit is growing and will probably be ''tens of millions'' of dollars worse than previously anticipated.</p> <p>King said that lawmakers will have to meet in a special session this fall to deal with the deficit, which is expected to climb to more than $200 million over a two-year period.</p>