Crashola:
If the Seattle Press-Intelligencier survives the next month, it will be as a online paper only. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver is about to cease publishing.
The new US government budget (PDF link) under Obama is going to cap federal employee raises (the automatic kind) to 2% next year; the base this last year for us was 3.9%. On the other hand, he’s bringing back the Superfund tax and funding the EPA at very good levels. Considering the cuts to funding during the Bush years, I’m delighted. Read the whole Bloomberg article for details, such as this one:
The agency would get $19 million to start building a greenhouse-gas emission inventory, an early step necessary for creating a carbon cap-and-trade system.
Absolutely. The agency needs much better IT/ data systems to take on these new reponsibilities.