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States budget woes a few blurbs- - 9/24/2009 5:14:19 PM

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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13411067?nclick_check=1

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BERKELEY — An estimated 5,000 people packed into UC's Sproul Plaza this afternoon to protest against tuition increases, employee layoffs and faculty furloughs. As the rally began, lines of demonstrators streamed into the plaza from all sides, chanting and holding signs. UC police estimated the Sproul Plaza crowd at 5,000 at its peak./snip
US college campuses somehow are lined up with the feds. In light of that this is just the beginning- recall kent State shootings in Ohio./snip

Here in PA they want to assess a

http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_267172735.html

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HARRISBURG — A leader of a Philadelphia cultural group says Gov. Ed Rendell and top state legislators are not budging from a proposal to impose a new tax on Pennsylvania's arts and culture sector./snip

So here we go--

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