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Residentes de Sunnyside, preocupados por posibles recortes presupuestarios

By Johanna Bejarano December 2, 2024

Sunnyside, WA. (Crédito: Annie Warren / NWPB.)

El gobierno de Sunnyside está considerando recortes significativos en su presupuesto de 2025. La ciudad pretende hacer frente a un déficit previsto de 1,5 millones de dólares. Pero algunos dicen que estos recortes afectarán algunos servicios cruciales para la comunidad.Read More

Sunnyside residents concerned about potential budget cuts

By Johanna Bejarano December 2, 2024

An aerial view of the city of Sunnyside, Washington. Houses and trees are in view.

The town of Sunnyside, Washington, in the Yakima Valley, looking south toward the Horse Heaven Hills. (Credit: Annie Warren / NWPB) watch Listen (Runtime 1:25) Read The Sunnyside City Council […]Read More

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left The National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared

By NWPB News April 5, 2020

File photo. Don Wood, an official with the Strategic National Stockpile, awaits another truck load of medications in Salt Lake City, Utah during a swine flu outbreak from the H1N1 virus in 2009. The pandemic that year prompted the largest use to date of the stockpile, which was created in 1999. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the current COVID-19 pandemic. CREDIT: Francisco Kjolseth/AP

Dire shortages of vital medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile that are now hampering the coronavirus response trace back to the budget wars of the Obama years, when congressional Republicans elected on the Tea Party wave forced the White House to accept sweeping cuts to federal spending.Read More

National Weather Service Forecast: Cloudy, With A Chance Of Budget Cuts

By NPR News March 2, 2018

The National Weather Service, already understaffed, would lose at least 200 positions in the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019.Read More