• NYS Legislature Passes 2024-25 State Budget

    The New York State Legislature passed a $237 billion dollar budget Saturday, two weeks after the 2024-25 budget was due. Governor Kathy Hochul issued a statement saying, “This budget agreement represents the most significant improvement in housing policy in three generations. It includes transformative investments in health care and education that will put our State […]

  • AP: North Carolina Legislature Reconvenes To Address Budget, Vouchers As Big Elections Approach

    The North Carolina General Assembly begins its annual work session Wednesday with a little extra money to spend and limited pressing issues to address before key elections this fall and longtime state government leaders depart.

    • CBC

    Federal budget boosts funding for CBC/Radio-Canada, executives say significant job cuts no longer needed

    The federal government is upping its funding for the CBC and Radio-Canada in its 2024 budget, easing the financial strain on the public broadcaster and the need for major job cuts and programming reductions this year.

  • OnePlus Pad Go vs OnePlus Pad: What’s the difference?

    OnePlus has announced that the budget-friendly OnePlus Pad Go is set to launch in the UK and Europe, but how does it compare to the regular OnePlus Pad? While there are a lot of similarities between the two, especially when it comes to overall design and look, there are key differences that might sway your buying decision one way or the other.  We’ve spent a lot of time with the OnePlus Pad, and we’ve gone hands-on with the OnePlus Pad Go, so we’ve got a good idea of what’s on offer from...

  • Poco Pad gets certified, will be a rebranded Redmi Pad Pro

    Poco is one of Xiaomi's value brands, alongside Redmi, and while we've already seen Redmi tablets, Poco is yet to launch one. That will however change soon, since a Poco tablet has already received its FCC certification, and it was also spotted in the Camera FV-5 database. Thus we know a tiny little bit about it. The Poco tablet will apparently be called Poco Pad. It will have the model number 2405CPCFBG for global markets, and it will ship running Xiaomi's HyperOS 1.0, presumably on top of...

  • Former congressional budget leaders slam ‘absolutely broke’ budget process

    Several former leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees criticized the current state of the congressional budget process on Wednesday in the wake of Congress's repeated failure to adopt concurrent budget resolutions in recent years. “The budget process is absolutely broke, and it needs to be repaired,” said former Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.), who

    • WNYC

    The NYS Budget and Climate

    This Earth Week, Liz Moran, policy advocate for Earthjustice's Northeast office, talks about the ways the new New York State budget does, and does not, address climate change.

  • State Budget Passed in NY

    Legislative leaders pass a record 237-Billion-dollar state budget. Along with record spending for education and initiative to build new housing, the budget deal also gives the Governor the go-ahead to close up to 5 more State Prisons, which is a major concern for North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones and State Senator Dan Stec.

  • Lluc archive budget doubled

    The Consell de Mallorca has doubled the budget allocated to the Sanctuary of Lluc for the conservation and digitisation of its historic archive, from €35,000 to €70,000 euros. President of the Consell, Llorenç Galmés said this increase on 23 April was “to help maintain the more than 10,000 parchments, sheets and documents recounting centuries of […]

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  • Honor Pad 9 review

    Unintuitively, the Honor Pad 9 (a.k.a. the Tablet 9 in China) is has a large 12.1-inch screen. It covers all the basics with an eight-speaker audio setup

    • WNYC

    New York's New Budget

    WNYC / Gothamist Albany reporter Jon Campbell talks about what's in and what's out of the just-approved New York State budget, including housing incentives, zoning changes, limited tenant protections, mayoral control of the schools, and more.