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Budget pinch spurs new look at ways cooperation can shave costs
Around Northwest Indiana, cities, towns, counties and school systems are all preparing to cut back in some fashion next year, as property tax collections decline and sales tax revenues fail to meet expected targets.
Nov 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Analysis: For Clinton, tough talk but few results
CAIRO -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.
Nov 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Slow support in courts, too
If financially strapped parents in Lake County feel it's taking too long to get their child support cases heard in court, they're not going to get an argument from county prosecutors.
Nov 01, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Could the U.S. be aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan?
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- To a foreigner, the rumor sounds preposterous. But to the average Afghan, it's well within the range of the possible: Western military forces are using their helicopters to ferry Taliban fighters around the country.
Nov 01, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Coming wave of green jobs means blue skies for minorities struggling in slumping cities
It won't happen overnight, but the green jobs that will flow from the pending cap-and-trade legislation will go a long way toward reviving Detroit, Newark, Cleveland, Hartford and other once great cities now struggling for their very existence.
Oct 25, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Credits before credit's due
A growing number of area students are capitalizing on the age-old lesson "time is money" by picking up college credits while still in high school.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
College without being on campus
Crowded college classrooms in colleges and universities across the country are giving way to a technology revolution as students take classes on their own terms.
Oct 11, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
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