Running Out of Lunch Money
(ABC 6 NEWS) - One Iowa school is nearly $57,000 behind on lunch money owed by students. Des Moines school officials say higher food prices and the slumping economy are making it hard for students to pay.
Tobacco settlement money squandered by states, advocates charge
Alaska is making the best use of cigarette taxes and Big Tobacco settlement money distributed to states in the decade after authorities negotiated a deal with the companies over smoking-related health costs incurred by the states, according to a new report released today by a coalition of advocacy groups. South Carolina ranks the worst. [More]
@ Society of Editors: Who is making money online?
Is anyone actually making money online? Ifra director Dietmar Schantin said the answer is in wrapping special projects around specialist topics, and showed case studies from five international news sites that have a turned a decent profit. And he managed to find five projects that didn't rely on Google or Yahoo . • In Turkey, Hürriyet ran a competition to find the car of the ...
Your money: Who's making what in Knox County?
10News took at a look at five different Knox County entities -- the City of Knoxville, Knox County, the Public Building Authority, Knox County Schools and the University of Tennessee -- to find out who's being paid the most with taxpayer money.
Cities complain about regulations for flood money
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - City officials say they're frustrated that rules imposed on government funding are making it harder to distribute disaster recovery funds to homeowners.
United Way making final funding push
United Way of Marathon County is making one last push this week to raise enough money to fully fund programs in 2009.