When it comes to his potential $37,000 raise, Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn has his story and he’s sticking to it. During a County Legislature committee meeting tonight, Democrats questioned O’Flynn about the raise, which he’d receive under the 2014 proposed county budget. The county administration has said that O’Flynn included the raise as part of the […]
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Sequestering the Great Lakes
Before last year, most people probably associated “sequester” with juries. But now the word has a lot of people thinking and talking about federal funding. The sequester is just another term for mandatory, across-the-board federal spending cuts, which were triggered when a deficit reduction committee failed to reach agreement two years ago. At least, that’s […]
