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Is It Still Possible To Avert A State Government Shutdown In Minnesota? TPMDC Budget negotiations continued Tuesday to try to avert a state government shutdown, but no deal has stuck yet. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton again met with Republican leaders of the legislature, calling the talks "constructive. ... See all stories on this topic » TPMDC

UK faces mass strikes as civil servants feel sting The Associated Press The government hopes it will fizzle into a summer of hardheaded acceptance. The first test comes Thursday, when 750000 public-sector workers — from teachers to driving examiners to customs officials — walk out for the day, part of a growing wave of ... See all stories on this topic »

David Cameron calls for new relationship with councils The Guardian David Cameron told LGA conference in Birmingham that he wants a good relationship between local and central government. Photograph: Chris Young/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron has called for a new, constructive relationship between central and local ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Strikes: How important is public support? BBC News As Mr Gove's words show, the government is already looking at how the general public will react to Thursday's strike by 750000 teachers and civil servants. So too will the unions involved, for both sides will be hoping to claim popular support and use ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Myanmar government warns Suu Kyi planned tour could cause riots Reuters They also propagate that the government is responsible for security of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on her trip," a commentary in all three official newspapers said. "We are deeply concerned that if Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes trips to countryside regions, ... See all stories on this topic »

Keep wallet open, cattle farmers tell govt Sydney Morning Herald Another $5 million in compensation for beef farmers has only prompted a warning to the federal government that it will need to keep its wallet open. Under pressure from the government, the Cattle Council of Australia dipped into its contingency fund on ... See all stories on this topic »

Portugal to Speed Austerity Measures Wall Street Journal By PATRICIA KOWSMANN LISBON—Portugal's new government will accelerate some austerity measures to narrow the country's budget deficit, after determining that the previous administration's efforts in the first quarter didn't go far enough, two ... See all stories on this topic »

Gold May Advance on Greek Protests, Strike Before Government Votes on Cuts Bloomberg By Phoebe Sedgman and Sungwoo Park - Wed Jun 29 06:27:22 GMT 2011 Gold increased for a second day as concern about protests and strikes in Greece before the government's vote on budget cuts boosted demand for the metal as an alternative investment. ... See all stories on this topic »

Minister reports on children in detention ABC Online STEPHEN LONG: Last October the Prime Minister promised the Government would move children out of immigration detention. The Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, set tomorrow as his deadline to move "the very significant majority" of unaccompanied minors ... See all stories on this topic »

Canberra helps HP develop government cloud The Australian THREE federal agencies are credited with helping Hewlett-Packard develop a government cloud offering that gives the vendor a 24-month head start over some rivals in Australia. HP began discussions with the agencies about 12 months ago to create a ... See all stories on this topic »

Mounting concerns over legal aid BBC News The government's plans to cut legal aid in England and Wales return to Parliament later, amid opposition from lawyers and campaigners. The Ministry of Justice aims to slash £300m from the £2.1bn legal aid bill. Under the plans, people will not be ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

McGuinty government's cost-control plan too optimistic, auditor says Globe and Mail The McGuinty government's plan to erase Ontario's multibillion-dollar deficit by reining in spending on health care, education and other social programs has been called into question by the provincial auditor. Many of the assumptions that underpin the ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Stadium site former industrial waste dump ABC Online An environmental researcher says the WA Government will face significant costs to ensure the site of its proposed new stadium is safe. The government yesterday announced a 60000 seat stadium will be built at Burswood by 2018. ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Online

It's the parents' job, not government's DesMoinesRegister.com But, in the court's decision striking down the California law, he said disgust is not sufficient reason for a government ban. That is exactly right and consistent with the First Amendment tradition that protects not just speech we find agreeable, ... See all stories on this topic »

UK government continues to "welcome overseas students" Re:locate Magazine Overseas students will breathe a sigh of relief at the news that the UK government has no plans to restrict non-EU student numbers in the latest higher education reforms. Universities minister, David Willetts, made clear in his speech to the House of ... See all stories on this topic »

Opposition pressure to keep schools open ABC Online The Federal Opposition says the Government should pay back the stimulus money for schools it wants to close. (ABC News) The Federal Opposition is lobbying the Tasmanian Government to keep open 20 schools listed for closure. Federal, state and local ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Online

Govt rep.: Some groups want to derail peace talks GMANews.TV Some groups intend to derail the peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the government chief negotiator said in a statement Wednesday. "I would like to warn the public against people who have ... See all stories on this topic »

Power of the Ghanaian Youth, the Role of Government GhanaWeb In the case of Ghana, I am worried about the extent to which young people are expecting that the government has to do everything for them. It is true that the government of every country has to provide the best platform for its people to develop their ... See all stories on this topic »

China Needs a Credit Crunch Wall Street Journal Reports of piling local government debt should be a wake-up call to Beijing to address the issue. By VICTOR SHIH On Monday, the Chinese government took an important step toward revealing the extent of borrowing by local governments. ... See all stories on this topic »

Chilean government moves up schools' winter vacation in response to student ... Washington Post By AP, SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile's government is moving up winter break at more than 200 schools occupied by student protesters who are demanding improvements in the education system. Education Minister Joaquin Lavin says the order will ensure students ... See all stories on this topic »

Government's US$2 Billion Sukuk Oversubscribed 4.5 Times Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 (Bernama) -- The Government of Malaysia's five-year and 10-year Wakala Global Sukuk worth RM2 billion in total has been oversubscribed by 4.5 times, thanks largely to strong investor demand from the Middle East, Malaysia, Asia, ... See all stories on this topic »

Army Times, Defense News, other Gannett government sites hacked; reader data ... Los Angeles Times Gannett Government Media -- publisher of a dozen websites for the Army Times, Defense News and other government news websites and newspapers -- has had its Web servers hacked. The company announced the security breach in a notice online on June 7, ... See all stories on this topic »

Push to eliminate mosquito-fighting layer of government stirs passions on both ... Chicago Tribune When reformers talk of peeling away the luxuriant layers of government in Illinois, they often take a swat at an easy target: mosquito abatement districts. They're small. They're old. They kill bugs. In a state strapped for cash and billions of dollars ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Tribune

Is the UK government hypocritical?: Tory MP has tea with Al-Assad as protests ... International Business Times By Anissa Haddadi | June 29, 2011 9:56 AM GMT Brooks Newmark, the Conservative MP for Braintree and a government whip, held talks on Monday with the controversial Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, whose brutal repression of protests has been condemned by ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

At town Syrians fled, government gives its side of story CNN (blog) Critics of the Syrian government accuse it of killing unarmed demonstrators; the government blames what it says are armed gangs bent on establishing an Islamic caliphate. This is a post that Damon filed Tuesday from Jisr al-Shougour, a Syrian town ... See all stories on this topic »

William-Kate visit highlights royal tie in government push to reshape Canada's ... Washington Post Meanwhile, those who leaf through the government's updated guide to good citizenship will notice that the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II has been moved from the back of the pamphlet to the front. ( / Associated Press ) - FILE In this July 3, ... See all stories on this topic »

Bus crashes, fatalities worse than government reports USA Today By Alan Levin, USA TODAY The number of fatal bus accidents such as the one that killed former college basketball hero Lorenzo Charles Monday in North Carolina is much higher than the government reports, a USA TODAY review of government records and news ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

NATO Says it will Keep Pressure on Libyan Government Voice of America In this picture taken on a government-guided tour, a cameraman works near a destroyed private bus of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi at an area in the Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli, June 27, 2011. NATO's commander for the Libya operation says the ... See all stories on this topic »

Judge rejects US environmental group's request to join government lawsuit ... Xinhua The US government last December sued BP, the British oil giant behind the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico year, for damages under the US Oil Pollution Act and the Clean Water Act. Besides BP, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig that ... See all stories on this topic »

Hacker Group Releases Government Files New York Times (blog) Early Tuesday, the AntiSec Anonymous cell posted several sets of government files, and promised more later in the day. Files it posted online appeared to include passwords for several sites associated with the Brazilian government as well as contents ... See all stories on this topic »

Fed's Hoenig: If Government Has to Give Subsidies, Should Go to Factories Not ... Wall Street Journal (blog) By Maya Jackson Randall If the US federal government is going to be in the business of giving certain sectors a subsidy, the perk should go to manufacturing, not the financial sector, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said ... See all stories on this topic »

Report: Government Plans To Spy On America's Doctors Huffington Post A team of federal government workers may soon be going undercover as "secret shoppers" at doctor offices around the country. As part of the plan, the secret shoppers will call up doctor offices either as recipients of private insurance, or recipients ... See all stories on this topic »

How government is like insurance Baltimore Sun That is, Americans express a strong belief in hard work and making their way by pluck or even luck, rather than privilege or government assistance. But American majorities also support various social programs and the taxes that pay for them, ... See all stories on this topic »

Anonymous Picks Up Where LulzSec Left Off, Targeting Government Servers International Business Times After revealing contents from the Arizona police force, the Anti-Sec team unveiled sensitive content from the servers of a number of governments, including content from the servers of Anguilla, passwords from Brazillian government servers, ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc. Reports Results for the Fiscal ... MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, Jun 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") /quotes/zigman/301006/quotes/nls/rcs RCS +0.53% , a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company which as a primary objective seeks to ... See all stories on this topic »

Greek Government Bonds Rise on Bailout Bets; German Bonds Fall on Trichet Bloomberg The proposal by French banks depends upon credit-rating firms not cutting their grade on Greece and existing or newly issued government securities to default, according to a draft of the plan. Germany's biggest banks and insurers will meet with the ... See all stories on this topic »

U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Honors Government Liquidation, a Liquidity ... MarketWatch (press release) The award is in recognition of Liquidity Services' continued outperformance in efficiently handling the Department of Defense's (DOD) scrap surplus sales, while increasing revenue to the government and significantly reducing operational costs. ... See all stories on this topic »

Jersey is broke, and who said life is fair anyway? phillyBurbs.com (blog) Chris Christie's government pension and health benefits reform is a Burlington County woman who toils deep within the bowels of the state government. She spotted an item on my blog at phillyBurbs.com, "Fiscal sanity comes to New Jersey," a post ... See all stories on this topic »

Supreme Court to consider government's warrantless GPS tracking Nextgov By Aliya Sternstein 06/28/2011 The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major mobile-tracking case filed by the Obama administration that will weigh whether it is unconstitutional for the government to access GPS-location data continuously over a ... See all stories on this topic »

State Government and Political News: Recall candidate removed from ballot Pierce County Herald The Government Accountability Board ruled yesterday that 26 of Nygren's nominating signatures were invalid – and only 398 were valid, leaving him two short of the required minimum. Nygren, of Marinette, wants the Senate seat held by Green Bay Democrat ... See all stories on this topic »

Can TSA's scans give you cancer? Is government covering up disease 'clusters'? Daily Mail A traveller undergoes a full body scan performed by TSA agents in Denver in 2010 (file photo) Claims that the government is covering up 'clusters' of cancer among Transport Security Administration workers have sparked fears the agency's airport ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Greek government austerity measures BBC News The government hopes to collect more social security contributions by cracking down on evasion and undeclared work. The statutory retirement age will be raised to 65, 40 years of work will be needed for a full pension and benefits will be linked more ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

India asked Google to block content critical of government The Hindu It also received 1699 "user data requests" from the government — euphemism for the police wanting a peek into the search and usage habits of targeted individuals — and complied with 79 per cent of these. However, no details were given. ... See all stories on this topic » The Hindu

Shadow Government: Withdrawing from Afghanistan: Obama vs. the GOP, part II Foreign Policy Not bad, though I'd like to see some acknowledgment of the major difficulties with the Afghan government, the attendant failures of our civilian assistance effort, and the need for a tougher line with Kabul. Bachmann and Pawlenty give the impression ... See all stories on this topic » Foreign Policy

Government says sales of tobacco to minors falls Baltimore Sun (blog) Sales of tobacco to minors has hit an all time low, according to a new government report. Reducing tobacco sales has been a priority nationally and in Maryland for years, and now the average violation rate by retailers is down to 9.3 percent, ... See all stories on this topic » Baltimore Sun (blog)

Microsoft patents government internet spying technology Inquirer By Dean Wilson SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft has patented technology that enables it or the government to "silently record" users' internet communications, or, in other words, spy on them. The patent, numbered 20110153809 and entitled Legal Intercept, ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas Public Employee Rick Perry: 'Government Doesn't Create Any Jobs' Think Progress During an interview with Fox News' Glenn Beck, Perry made the ludicrous claim that "government doesn't create any jobs": BECK: Can the government actually create jobs, sir? PERRY: Actually, what a government can do, it can create an environment where ... See all stories on this topic » Think Progress

Government agency looking to pull breast cancer drug Today's THV UNDATED (CBS) -- Two days of hearings are underway as the FDA begins the rare step of reconsidering whether to pull a popular breast cancer drug. The agency previously recommended withdrawing Avastin saying studies show it is ineffective against the ... See all stories on this topic »

Government should rein in spending to match drop in revenue Baltimore Sun (blog) I don't think that I am asking too much of our elected officials to rein in our government's spending to match the decline in tax revenues. I did it on a personal level and it is painful. I miss the standard of living that I once enjoyed. ... See all stories on this topic »

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