The inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Just today a federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Decision to block porto ricos municipalities from declaring bankruptcy. Theres probably too many for a population of over 3. 5 million. 78 municipalities some as small as 10 and 15,000. They are traditional units of government. Many older than the u. S. Their inability to get out from under crushing debt may slow down a resizing of the government rather than bringing the day closer. Robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and time and options are getting shorter. Reporter its the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. Robert ray, Al Jazeera America an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and Common Ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. You guys are mayors you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the governm
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Just today a federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Decision to block porto ricos municipalities from declaring bankruptcy. Theres probably too many for a population of over 3. 5 million. 78 municipalities, some as small as 10 and 15,000. They are traditional units of government. Many older than the u. S. Their inability to get out from under crushing debt may slow down a resizing of the government, rather than bringing the day closer. Robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and shorter. Reporter its the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis, the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. Robert ray, Al Jazeera America an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and Common Ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. You guys are mayors, you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the government has. Thats why we are here. Do you beli
Is the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. Just today a federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Decision to block porto ricos municipalities from declaring bankruptcy. Theres probably too many for a population of over 3. 5 million. 78 municipalities, some as small as 10 and 15,000. They are traditional units of government. Many older than the u. S. Their inability to get out from under crushing debt may slow down a resizing of the government, rather than bringing the day closer. Robert ray visited the island as the fiscal crisis tightened, and shorter. Reporter its the new fiscal year in porto rico, sales tax jumping to curb the crisis, the reality i is more than 70 billion in debt looms. Robert ray, Al Jazeera America an emergency meeting between mayors and the governor looking for solutions and Common Ground on the biggest challenge the commonwealth faced. You guys are mayors, you have a finger on the pulse, probably tighter than the government has. Thats why we
Juliette goodrich, in for michelle griego. Injuliette goodrich caught up with this this afternoon. Reporter you might call this quite the optional clothing resort, two employees charged with stealing a lot of water to supply the lodge. If the convicted, they could face up to three years in yale. In jail. Im not allowed to make comments. Reporter at the lupin lodge Registration Counter employees were warned not to say much. Your attorney doesnt want to us make a statement. Reporter the lodge owners and three employees asked mid peninsula regional open space district if they could install temporary lines to collect water from hen dries creek. That was last july. The district said no. But they did it anyway and according to the d. A. The owners installed multiple water lines into hendris creek and other springs on district property. Those water lines delivered water to the lodge. Had you been warned. I have been told by our attorneys that we cannot makemy statements until after discovery.
Juliette goodrich, in for michelle griego. Injuliette goodrich caught up with this this afternoon. Reporter you might call this quite the optional clothing resort, two employees charged with stealing a lot of water to supply the lodge. If the convicted, they could face up to three years in yale. In jail. Im not allowed to make comments. Reporter at the lupin lodge Registration Counter employees were warned not to say much. Your attorney doesnt want to us make a statement. Reporter the lodge owners and three employees asked mid peninsula regional open space district if they could install temporary lines to collect water from hen dries creek. That was last july. The district said no. But they did it anyway and according to the d. A. The owners installed multiple water lines into hendris creek and other springs on district property. Those water lines delivered water to the lodge. Had you been warned. I have been told by our attorneys that we cannot makemy statements until after discovery.