Red Ink: The High Stakes Politics Of The Federal Budget
In Sunday's Kansas City Star, Up to Date host Steve Kraske wrote about "the fiscal cliff."In short, the cliff refers to a series of big choices facing lawmakers in this country that could lead to...
View ArticleBest Outlook Views KC-Area Economic Growth At 5 Percent
So much depends on factors influencing the Kansas City area economy, the best drawn analysis of future trends has to be flexible. Forecasters readily admit it.
View ArticleFiscal Cliffhangers
Listen This year, January 1st will not be just another day to nurse a hangover, it also marks the deadline for the United States government to enact regulations to avert a prospective economic crisis.
View ArticleU.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver & Kevin Yoder
With only five weeks left in the 112th Congress, Representatives and Senators are under pressure to find common ground among themselves and with the President to avoid the fiscal cliff.Listen
View ArticleBrownback Believes US Will Avoid Fiscal Cliff
If lawmakers in Washington don't reach a budget agreement soon, a series of automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect.
View ArticleMissouri Farm Bureau Seeks Action On Farm Bill
Missouri Farm Bureau delegates are gathering at the Lake of the Ozarks this week to set a lobbying agenda for the coming year. Farmers are hoping the looming fiscal cliff will push congress to pass a...
View ArticleFunding Cuts Could Impact UM System
Sequestration, or the automatic across-the-board funding cuts set to kick in nationwide at the beginning of 2013, will tally nearly $110 billion in cuts over the next nine years.
View ArticleWind Energy Could Fall Off Fiscal Cliff
U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo says the fate of a wind energy tax credit could be tied to the so-called fiscal cliff negotiations.
View ArticleKansas Faces Fiscal Cliff
Budget negotiations between President Obama and Congressional leaders continue, but if those talks fail, Kansas will see a series of funding cuts that will affect the future of higher education,...
View ArticleToday's Three Stories To Read About The 'Fiscal Cliff'
As we've said now several times, "the White House and congressional leaders continue to talk about taxes, spending cuts and how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that arrives at midnight Dec. 31 —...
View ArticleMissouri Could Lose $1 Billion Over Fiscal Cliff
The Washington-based group Federal Funds Information for States reports defense spending cuts could total more than $1 Billion in Missouri if automatic budget cuts are not averted. Other programs in...
View ArticleBoehner Sends 'Fiscal Cliff' Counteroffer To White House
The back and forth over the "fiscal cliff" continues: House Speaker John Boehner sent a new counterproposal to the White House on Tuesday that, according to a spokesman for the speaker, aims to...
View ArticleFarm Bill Becomes Fodder In 'Fiscal Cliff' Wrangling
Among the loose ends that lawmakers would like to tie up before the end of this lame-duck session is the farm bill, which is made up mostly of crop subsidies and food stamps.The last farm bill expired...
View ArticleObama, Boehner Star In 'Fiscal Cliff' Negotiations
Of the 535 members of Congress, not many appear to be in the loop about the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. That makes the rest nervous about having to vote on a bill on short notice despite misgivings...
View ArticleOn 'Fiscal Cliff,' Majority Of Public Sides With Democrats, Pew Poll Says
As the end-of-year tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" near, "Democrats are in a strong position with the public," the Pew Research Center reports.A new national poll Pew...
View ArticleObama And Boehner Meet At White House; Session Ends Without Deal
President Obama hosted House Speaker John Boehner today, spending nearly an hour together in which they reportedly discussed ways to avert the looming "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes that...
View ArticleKU Lobbies To Save Research Grants
Amid negotiations in Washington to year end avoid budget cuts and tax hikes, universities are lobbying against grant reductions.
View ArticleOpen-Government Watchdogs OK With Closed-Door Fiscal Cliff Talks
If President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner's closed-door meetings aimed at solving the fiscal cliff crisis trouble anyone, you'd expect it to be the open-government watchdogs who routinely bark...
View ArticleBlunt Says No To Gun Control, Blames Fed Health Programs
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt says badly administered mental health programs should be fixed as a remedy, rather than blame guns for violence like the Connecticut school killings.
View ArticleStates Dreading Fiscal Cliff Outcome — But Indecision May Be Worse
It's not the cutting, it's the uncertainty.That's the lament these days from governors and mayors awaiting the outcome of federal budget negotiations.They know they're likely to take a hit; they just...
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