Presidential panel offers 2nd proposal on federal pay freeze
Updated 1:39 p.m. ET Federal employees would take a hit, along with many other parts of the government, under a plan released Wednesday by a presidential commission charged with getting the nation’s finances in order. The plan would freeze pay for federal workers for three years and cut the workf…
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First Thoughts: All eyes on Bowles, Simpson
With a bipartisan summit working on the Bush tax cuts and with the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now in the Senate’s hands, the political world turns its attention to the deficit commission.
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‘Fight like a man’: Dominatrix to Harper
Ontario’s prostitution laws will remain in effect so that lawyers can mount an appeal of a landmark ruling that essentially decriminalized prostitution.
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