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"Just a few examples of the completed projects: Washington’s Department of Agriculture completely eliminated livestock-inspection nonpayment and reduced cash payments by 90 percent while cutting non-value-added steps by 20 percent. The Department of Fish and Wildlife reduced the time to manage commercial -fishery harvest data from 90 hours to eight. And the Department of Ecology reduced the number of days between guidelines issued and the start of grant negotiations by 48 percent."

"[NY] Governor Andrew Cuomo said he is asking fellow Democrat, President Barack Obama, to pay 100 percent of the estimated $6 billion bill, at a time that state and local government budgets remain constrained by a weak economic recovery. That would be a significant change from last year when the federal government covered about 75 percent of the $1.2 billion cost paid by New York to clean up after storm Irene hit the region.

Has Vermont received 75% Of Its Total Costs Related To Irene?

VSEA’s own Annie Leibovitz (a.k.a. Bonnie Kynoch) shares her 2012 September Council Meeting photos.

Thanks Bonnie!

Article’s author writes: "By now I have had the overtime system explained to me by several people. It sounds like a game that is set up to make the players fail. More accurately, it sounds like a game set up to make those who stick with the union fail. "

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