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Despite technical difficulties (isn’t live radio grand?), the interview with Oakland Unified School District’s Moore delivers timely insights

February 16, 2011

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Despite technical difficulties both at the very start and end of the show, the meat of the interview sandwich as I would call it with Oakland Unified School District’s Michael Moore was very informative especially within the present day context of budgetary shortfalls at the State and municipal levels.   Like Nassau County, whose finances […]

The State takes over Nassau County’s Finances . . . is this the first domino in what is going to become a chain reaction across the country?

January 27, 2011

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Although the county treasurer’s investment strategy was “an accident waiting to happen,” Baldassare points to a two-decade trend of voter initiatives to simultaneously minimize tax increases and control the allocation of state tax funds . . . Now one might presume that the above excerpt is referring to today’s news courtesy of the New York […]