Carroll County commissioners last week approved almost $6 million in contracts for paving projects in the county in an effort to repair and preserve aging county infrastructure.
Roads and walking paths around the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster will soon be improved, in time for spring, when more activities are scheduled there. At the Feb. 3 Board of County Commissioners meeting, officials awarded a $66,628 contract with Jems Contracting, Inc., for paving and repair at the farm museum, at the recommendation the county’s Bureau of Facilities.
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Pittsburgh’s city operating budget for 2021 was unveiled by Mayor Bill Peduto in November 2020. The corporate media lauded it as a comprehensive restructuring after recently being granted full control back from Pennsylvania state auditors. The new budget increased spending by $30 million from the previous year to a whopping $608 million including a 5.45 percent increase in the police personnel budget to around $68 million somehow without raising taxes or introducing new ones in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Despite the liberal buzzwords and soothing platitudes, the Pittsburgh city budget is a further entrenchment of the same capitalist status quo afflicting most American municipalities. It is a status quo defined by austerity policies and increasingly higher investments in the local police state. It is a status quo that relies on public-sector employees taking the hit and government positions “remaining vacant” to cover costs.