In another look at the budget bill HB 7501, amended in LCO 10072, (aka SB 1502 of the special June 2017 session) we find that those words (“and each fiscal year thereafter”) have been in CT General Statutes over the years for many other areas. Sometimes they appear in the budget bill because of rewriting specific funding statutes (“Section xxx-xxx […]
Read more "37 INSTANCES OF 5 “BAD” WORDS"A letter sent to state legislators from West Hartford on September 20: The GOP Budget that passed on Saturday not only diverts 3.5 million dollars from PEGPETIA, a capital fund reserved for community television and school technology, republicans tacked on the words “…AND EACH FISCAL YEAR THEREAFTER” and set up a perennial sweep. It is […]
Read more "Five Unneeded Words that will Decimate Local TV for Schools and Communities"If you have the time and Cape Cod is not too far a drive for you, Connecticut ACM can help fund your trip to the Northeast Regional Conference. If you are on the mailing list for the ACM Northeast chapter, you already know that this has been set for early November. The conference schedule (still a […]
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