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Closed signs went up at California agencies Friday as a second slew of mandatory furloughs went into effect for government employees in an effort to resolve California’s $19 billion budget deficit.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to the governor’s office, ordered state workers to take three unpaid days off per month until a new budget is […]

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Gerald Pace, who has been general counsel at North Milwaukee State Bank for three years, will become the chief financial officer of Milwaukee Public Schools.
Pace previously was a public finance associate with a Milwaukee law firm and served as CFO with a large Ohio school district, the bank said Friday.
North Milwaukee State Bank president and […]

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Thursday’s $100 million settlement between Dell and the Securities and Exchange Commission was a reminder that the government is going after tech’s bad boys — and Intel is likely next on the feds’ list.
According to the SEC’s complaint against Dell, Intel paid the computer maker rebates as part of a deal in which Dell […]

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio and former U. S. Congressman Jim Davis will discuss transportation initiatives for the University of South Florida area July 14 as part of wider campaign to improve Tampa Bay-area transit.
The “University Area Transportation Summit” is free and open to the public, but expected to draw heavily from the university, Temple Terrace […]

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Smallwood Drive School may have been toppled from first place this year, but it still has the best cumulative three-year score of any elementary school.
The three-year standings are determined by averaging each school's ranks in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Smallwood was No. 1 the first two years, then slipped to No. 2, yielding an average […]

FLORISSANT — After standing vacant for a year and a half, the old Value City site on North Lindbergh Boulevard has new life.
The building at 2394 North Highway 67 — or Lindbergh — was shuttered after Value City Department Stores filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2008 and closed many of its stores […]

Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday added Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach to his list of counties he has declared to be in a state of emergency as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On April 30, Crist declared a state of emergency in several Florida Panhandle counties, following the April 21 […]

Money rules of thumb can be inaccurate because people’s financial lives differ. But they can help us make difficult decisions or give us benchmarks. Here are a few:
— Rule of 10: For perspective on big purchases, think about how you will feel about it in 10 days, 10 weeks and 10 years. For […]

The federal government unveiled details this week about how people up to age 26 can get covered by their parents’ health insurance policies, as part of the health care reform law.
Consumers now have details about how one of the law’s most-buzzed about provisions will actually work — and how much it will cost them.
Expanding […]