With time running out on the city’s dismal finances and tensions bubbling over, representatives from the state and the city have been meeting around the clock.
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Governor Rick Snyder Sees Hope for a Deal With Detroit
Brazilian troops clash with police striking over pay and conditions in the state of Bahia, as they try to remove them from the state assembly.
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Troops and police clash in Brazil
Brazilian troops clash with police striking over pay and conditions in the state of Bahia, as they try to remove them from the state assembly.
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Troops and police clash in Brazil
800,000 people who need social care in England receive no support from the state or private sector, campaigners say – and the numbers are rising.
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Thousands ‘lack social care help’
A powerful Albany lobbyist is accused by the attorney general’s office of dangling favors to win business from the state’s pension fund.
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City Room: Lobbyist Ensnared in Fund Scandal
Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state. To be innocent in America means we passively permit offshore penal colonies where we torture human beings, some of whom are children. To be innocent in America is to acquiesce to the relentless corporate destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species. To be innocent in America is to permit the continued theft of hundreds of billions of dollars from the state by Wall Street swindlers read more
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