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Guv considers reopening Washington office
Washington :: UT :: USA | 13 days ago
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The state did contract with a Washington lobbying firm, Dutko Worldwide from 2005 through 2007, mainly to lobby against the opening of a nuclear waste storage facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation. The state paid $181,432 to the firm, according...
Tags: Washington, washington office, Herbert, Utah, Mike Leavitt, Leavitt, Lobbying, Sean Parnell, Politics, Dudley-Winthrop family, Dutko Worldwide, National Governors Association
Ritter fears federal expenses may hit Colorado
Biloxi :: MS :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Colorado's Bill Ritter was among the governors at a bipartisan conference Sunday who urged Congress not to shift the federal government's expenses to cash-strapped states. Colorado already has bridged a $1.4 billion budget gap, about 12 percent of the...
Tags: National Governors Association, National Governor's Association, Bill Ritter, health care
Govs resist added federal expenses from Congress
Biloxi :: MS :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Many of the nation's governors say they don't want Congress to force states to pick up extra expenses, from health care to national security. Democrats and Republicans attending the convention of the National Governors Association said Sunday that state...
Tags: Congress, National Governors Association, health careful, governor association, Mississippi
No-shows in majority at governors' meeting
Biloxi :: MS :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility More than half the governors in the United States were somewhere else Saturday when the National Governors Association meeting got under way in Biloxi, Miss. Many of the no-shows said they had to deal with fiscal crises, The Washington Post reported.
Sanford among half not attending governors' convention
Biloxi :: MS :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Leaders of about half of the U.S. states and territories are gathering on the Mississippi Gulf Coast this weekend for the National Governors Association summer convention. Among the governors skipping the meeting are Republicans Sarah Palin of Alaska,...
Tags: Mississippi Gulf Coast, governor association, National Governors Association, Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford
GOP Governors Criticize Stimulus
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility An array of Republican governors said they would reject at least some of the funding available under the Obama administration's economic-stimulus package, deepening the partisan divide over how to resuscitate the nation's moribund economy. South Carolina...
Tags: governor association, Barack Obama, stimulus funding, National Governors Association, Perdue, Washington, gop governor
Governors downplay GOP split over stimulus
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Jim Douglas (Vt.), Charlie Crist (Fla.) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Calif.), have praised the stimulus as key to economic recovery at a time when they face looming budget deficits...Haley Barbour (Miss.) and Bobby Jindal (La.) have talked about sending...
Tags: Barack Obama, Edward Rendell, Washington, Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania, governor association, stimulus money, economic stimulus, president barack, National Governors Association
Patrick heads to Philadelphia for governor meeting
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Gov. Deval Patrick plans to spend the weekend in Philadelphia attending the 100th anniversary meetings of the National Governors Association. Also making the trip are about 70 current and former governors. One of them -- former President Bill Clinton...
Tags: Deval Patrick, Philadelphia, governor association, National Governors Association
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