NEW YORK — In a November budget update released Thursday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shrunk a multibillion dollar budget gap by cutting thousands of jobs and trimming services to the bone, including eliminating 6,000 teaching positions, overnight staffing at 20 fire companies, filling fewer potholes and shrinking library hours. (timesunion.com)
9,000 fewer potholes will be filled, child care co-payments will increase, police cars will stay on the road longer and prisoners will be fed fewer slices of bread. (dnainfo.com)
On the road to unlimited energy, the world's most complex science experiment encounters a few potholes (scientificamerican.com)