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« on: November 03, 2009, 06:45:31 PM »
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Who wants to go out on a limb and guess how the city plans to fix this problem?

Two of three bond raters rank city as triple-A
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Two Wall Street bond raters reaffirmed Columbus' top credit rating but also have warned city officials to rebuild a cushion against future economic downturns.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/03/copy/COUNCIL03.ART_ART_11-03-09_B2_GPFIB2T.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 04:36:45 PM »
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What are the chances that everyone will be up in arms over this?  The police and firefighters were just pawns for the political class in August, as usual.

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Mayor Michael B. Coleman's 2010 budget proposal didn't go over well yesterday with police and fire forces, whose campaigning helped win passage of the city's first income-tax increase since the early 1980s.

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Remember how the Columbus Income Tax increase was sold?

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