Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Lehigh Valley Sen. Pat Toomey proposes letting the White House make targeted spending cuts to avoid across-the-board reductions if sequester kicks in Friday
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey wants to let the White House make federal budget cuts required by the impending sequester to "cut in the least disruptive way possible." Toomey, a Republican from Zionsville, Lehigh County, said the move would help keep air traffic controllers on the job while cutting spending in redundant areas such as the federal government's 15 different financial literacy programs. "I'm not sure the federal government has demonstarted it's qualified to teach financial literacy," Toomey joked in a conference call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. He noted that the sequester will require only about 2 percent of spending to be cut from a government budget that has doubled in size over the past 10 years. Modest -- not draconian -- …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Friday's government spending cuts triggered by sequestration could affect the East Penn School District
East Penn School District could lose money for remedial and special education if automatic "sequestration" spending cuts trickle down from Washington, D.C. to the local level on Friday. But, the impact of such spending cuts on East Penn will be minor compared to the problems they will cause in the Lehigh Valley’s major cities, according to Charles Ballard, President of the East Penn Board of School Directors. Ballard shared his thoughts on the topic with Patch via email on Monday, stressing that his comments are his personal opinion and do not represent a position of the East Penn School Board. "Looming over all school districts in Pennsylvania are the potential impacts on educational programs, particularly for disadvantaged students, …
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
WXLV is feared to be on the block because of state budget cuts to education.
Editor's Note: At WXLV's invitation, The Lehigh Valley Patch sites began working with the station's students and the station director in April. Patch and WXLV produce a weekly radio show called "The Patch Report." Afraid that the sale of their campus radio station may be imminent, some students and alumni from Lehigh Carbon Community College have organized a rally to show support for WXLV, 90.3 FM, Wednesday in front of the college’s administration building. There, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., they will solicit signatures to a petition to save the radio station and take video statements from participants on their experiences with WXLV and their reasons for wanting to see it preserved as a campus resource, said Vince DeJesus, an LCCC student…
Garrett Rhoads
2:00 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The sequester in question was demanded by President Obama. He insisted on it. It was not "engineered by congress". Further, the President got the tax increases he wanted on the "evil 1%". It is now time for him to "reach across the aisle" and cut some spending. I will agree with Mr. Ballard that the Federal Government's lack of political will to cut pork spending on special interests instead of … more ›