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• Business Reputation a Goal for Lepage Team ; the New Administration Will Take Aim at Cutting Government Regulations, a Business Official Says.

During this year's gubernatorial campaign, Gov.-elect Paul LePage heard over and over that Maine is a difficult place to do business. That's about to change, said John Butera, co-chairman of LePage's transition team.

• Portland Press Herald
• December 08, 2010

• Over a Barrel

Though it may sound cynical," SCCC's Web site contends, "most school administrators would rather risk having 32 dead students and faculty members ... than risk having one injured student or faculty member ... for which they might be held liable. "I hoping that if we were an official campus group, we'd be able to take this issue to the Student Government Board," he says. Only Pitt administrators could overturn the ban, but [Templin] says going before the board would allow the group to "tell them some of the facts." Being official would also give SCCC better access on campus; for the April action, the group had to set up on Bigelow Boulevard, across from the Student Union. When asked if there has ever been any situation on campus where he might have welcomed the protection of a gun, Tem...

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 28, 2009

• Metro Government Official Says Cities Will Be Merged: ; Louisville Deputy Mayor Says Consolidation Helps Areas Gain More Funding

CHESTER - Nice, average cities will be left behind in the 21st century as more county and city governments explore ways to consolidate services, cut costs and compete for federal dollars, an official of a metro government in Kentucky said. Joan Riehm, deputy mayor of Louisville Metro Government, told a committee studying new structures for government in West Virginia on Wednesday that change must come sooner or later.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• July 30, 2004

• Va. Tech Awaiting Disaster Funds: ; School Official Says Federal Government has Been Unresponsive

RICHMOND, Va. - With the first anniversary of Virginia Tech's mass shootings just two months away and the campus rattled by the recent rampage at another college, school administrators want answers from the federal government about funding to help their community cope with the aftermath. Officials at the Blacksburg school hope to meet by telephone sometime this week with Department of Justice staffers handling their request for nearly $6 million in federal emergency assistance funding.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• February 20, 2008

• Business Briefs

Watchdog: Future bailouts appear likely WASHINGTON - A government official says the financial overhaul enacted last summer won't deliver on its promise to end bailouts.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 26, 2011

• Ex-Official Worries Afghan Criminals May Go Free After U.S. Turnover ; Says President Karzai's Government Is Failing to Solve Problems

Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former foreign minister, says he is concerned that militants locked up at a Bagram air base could be released after the U.S. detention facility is handed over to Afghans next year. It is quite possible that guilty people - people who have committed crimes against you, against us - will get released and harm us back," Mr. Abdullah said in a wide-ranging interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times on Tuesday.

• The Washington Times
• May 19, 2010

• Russia, China Veto Syria Resolution

mideast developments Yemen: A Yemeni medical official says pro- government forces have fired mortar shells in a southern city after two days of clashes there with armed tribesmen, killing seven people and seriously injuring 10. The tribesmen have supported anti- government protesters seeking President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster. Saudi Arabia: Saudi police clashed with protesters in the country's Shiite-dominated eastern region in a new ripple of unrest in the oil- rich kingdom, residents and officials said Tuesday. Libya: Families flowed out of Moammar Gadhafi's besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattle -- but unbowed in their deep distrust of the revolutionaries trying to crush this bastion of the old regime. Iraq: Iraqi leaders ...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 05, 2011

• Official Warns Iraqi Leaders ; U.S. Ambassador Says Government Must Be United

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. ambassador delivered a blunt warning to Iraqi leaders Monday that they risk losing American support unless they establish a national unity government with the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad delivered the warning as another 24 people, including an American soldier, died in a string of bombings, underscoring the need for the country to establish a government capable of winning the trust of all communities and ending the violence.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• February 27, 2006

• Government Not in Control, Somalia Official Says

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's government is not in control of most of this war-ravaged country, and a radical Islamic group that was driven out last year is regrouping, a Somali official said today. About 80 percent of Somalia is not safe and is not under control of the government," Sheik Qasim Ibrahim Nur, director of security at the National Security Ministry, told The Associated Press.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 14, 2007

• 2 Militants Die While Building Bomb in Nw Pakistan

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A government official says a local Taliban commander and his aide died when a bomb they were constructing in the militant chief's home in northwestern Pakistan exploded. Syed Ghafoor, a local official, says Thursday's blast in the Bajur tribal region also wounded several members of commander Irshad Khan's family.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 22, 2010