Monday, December 15, 2008
10 Billion Cuts School K-12.
Capitol Alert: What cuts the Republicans proposed
Legislative Republicans proposed a total of $22 billion in cuts and revenues to help close California's estimated $41.8 billion budget deficit on Monday.
Of that $15.6 billion were in cuts to existing programs.
Education, the state's biggest expenditure, takes the biggest hit, with more than $10.6 billion of the cuts allocated to K-12 schools and community colleges. That would bring school funding to just about the minimum required by state law.
The GOP lawmakers also proposed to eliminate funding for state transit agencies and an across-the-board 10 percent cut to the University of California and California State University systems.
Deep cuts in welfare and Medi-Cal programs also were proposed. The plan also would change eligibility rules to make it harder to enroll in those programs.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Age 20 and the Heartbreak of the 'Reddest Red'
I know I hark back to my homeplace at times, but it is a fascinating puzzle—and one that is now getting national scrutiny: why is Oklahoma the reddest of the red now—more even than Utah, with not one "blue county" on Nov. 4? Static in vote, bucking the national winds of change?
A fellow ex-Sooner now outside Seattle sent me this link to a blog from a student editor at the OU Daily re: her new-found anguish of maturity, and it has affected all with Okie roots who've read it (and many others). I posted it here at Daily Kos and it got a likely reception.
A fellow ex-Sooner now outside Seattle sent me this link to a blog from a student editor at the OU Daily re: her new-found anguish of maturity, and it has affected all with Okie roots who've read it (and many others). I posted it here at Daily Kos and it got a likely reception.
I locked myself in my bedroom and cried the first time I read the memo.
It was January 2008. Two weeks before, I had sent a text message to a former high school teacher that read simply, “Oh no. I may be turning liberal.” ...
Labels: Conservatives, Inhofe, Oklahoma, Red states
