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Ideas · Essay
…they pass at all. The third difficulty is accounting, and it does the most damage. In the budgets of most cities I know, including my own, building something new is classed as investment and keeping something…
Politics · Borders
…continent.” Lisk observed that this was the longest speech Pell had made in 43 years. Two budgets, one roof Liesel Kavan has been head librarian since 2009, which makes her the one person in the building who…
Politics · Public works
…bore her out. Freed from capital projects, the three districts tried to spend their road budgets on repair all at once and discovered there was almost nobody to do it. Surfacing crews in the north were booked…
Politics · Government
…pointed out that the opposition, in its own four years in office, had cut the same line in two budgets out of four. Within two days the assembly passed an emergency appropriation of 48 million crowns to repair the…