Green Projects Funding

How should the county address the funding shortfall for jail operations? Eubanks: This question is about a funding shortfall, but I believe it should equally address out of control spending. The 0.20 percent Detention Center Sales and Use tax will expire in 2014. This tax rate drops to 0.15 percent for the last two years of its life, in 2013 and 2014. The law enforcement budget has been allowed ...

SALEM and mdash; The community agency that works with the city's poorest neighborhood has fallen on its own hard times. The Salem Harbor Community Development Corp. has lost funding, cut jobs, eliminated programs and seen its board dwindle to a precious few.

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By Joseph Romm The New York Times Magazine has a long article on how uber-VC Kleiner Perkins is helping to jumpstart the clean-tech revolution. It is a must-read because what Kleiner and other VCs are doing -- pushing a broad spectrum of carbon-mitigating technologies out of the lab and into the market -- is some of the most important climate progress going on anywhere in the world. Venture capital is now as important if not more important than U.S. government spending on clean-tech, as I've a

Researchers working on a rare mummified dinosaur are seeking more money to complete the project. Possible funding sources might be from as far away as Japan.