DC Budget — Good News and Bad News

DC Budget -- Good News and Bad News

Good news and bad news on the District of Columbia Government budget:

The good news — there’s a surplus of $191 million.

The bad News — that’s only because DC departments are glacially slow in spending budgeted funds to meet the crushing needs of citizens.

Read the column by Jonetta Rose Barras in the Examiner.

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This entry was posted on February 5, 2009 at 11:59 am and is filed under Adrian Fenty, DC government, District of Columbia, economics, Examiner, government, Washington DC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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