Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/01/its-time-to-rethink-the-cost-of-wars/
May 1, 2010 - ...cost the U.S. taxpayers $1.05 trillion dollars to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through the end of Fiscal Year 2010. In March, the administration appeared again on Capital Hill to ask for another...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/29/bloomfield-public-square-dialogue-for-the-21st-cen/
April 29, 2010 - ...of Binghamton, New York, is so fed up with all the painful budget cuts he has to implement that he has embarked on a very unusual project that he introduced at a press conference April 14.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/
April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/unmanned-space-plane-opening-door-to-space-weaponi/
April 22, 2010 - ...of the space shuttle. The publication notes that the launch "will mark the fulfillment of a dream the Department of Defense has been pursuing for nearly 50 years: the orbital flight of a military vehi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/
April 17, 2010 - ...of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/16/moyers-on-the-cost-of-war/
April 16, 2010 - ...costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in tax dollars Binghamton citizens collectively and individually have cont...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/senator-d-ny-charles-e-schumer-on-the-afghanistan-/
April 15, 2010 - ...of constituents, I wrote my Senator about the war in Afghanistan. Unlike some Senators, Chuck Schumer actually wrote me back a reasonably detailed response (see below). Unfortunately, his views, which...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/on-tax-day-a-reminder-that-war-is-not-free/
April 15, 2010 - ...of City Hall with a large, digital "cost of war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions. Story continues below Advertisement That counter will offer a constantly changing estimate of the t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/binghamton-ny-marks-tax-day-with-city-hall-counter/
April 15, 2010 - ...War, when it was called the "living room war"—because they don't cover a lot of what the human costs of war and the pictures that we used to see during the Vietnam War, people—it's just sort of out of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/14/first-of-its-kind-cost-of-war-counter-already-cont/
April 14, 2010 - ...war? How do we measure that?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/13/price-of-war-too-high/
April 13, 2010 - ...of war, the cost increasingly is being questioned. People who years ago might have feared being called unpatriotic are lambasting the trillion dollars spent since 9/11.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/12/small-city-mayor-takes-on-the-pentagon/
April 12, 2010 - ...of City Hall with a large, digital "cost of war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions.??That counter will offer a constantly changing estimate of the total price Binghamton's taxpayers ha...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/12/afghan-war-forum-packs-falmouth-hall/
April 12, 2010 - ...of a four-person panel. The experts were Thomas Barfield, president of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies and a professor of anthropology at Boston University; Joseph Wippl, a former CIA of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/11/war-taxing-america/
April 11, 2010 - ...of watching people in local communities "squabble over crumbs," as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon's coffers and into America's wars. He's so sick and tired of it, in fac...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/27/defense-budget-after-afghanistan-and-iraq-withdraw/
March 27, 2010 - ...War II.Measured in 2010 dollars, the Korean War cost $393,000 per person involved per year. The cost in Vietnam was $256,000, reckons Conetta. Today's two wars cost $792,000 per person/year – and more...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/22/students-go-gaga-want-out-of-bad-romance-with-obam/
March 22, 2010 - ...Office workers, tourists and the occasional homeless person soak up the afternoon sun on one of the first pleasant days of spring. In other words, it's the perfect time for a dance party.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/
March 20, 2010 - ...war on corporate insurance forces determined to maintain the fiscal "slaver's whip" by proposing a straightforward public option plan through the existing Medicare network. Rather than the 2,000-plus-...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/19/little-fanfare-for-the-7th-anniversary-of-war-in-i/
March 19, 2010 - ...war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/seven-years-later/
March 18, 2010 - ...of the release of proposed 2011 fiscal budgets by the state House and Senate, Massachusetts legislative leaders sent a message to local governments across the Commonwealth: prepare for another round o...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/cost-of-wars-to-climb-as-congress-votes-to-continu/
March 18, 2010 - ...of Afghanistan within the next year. The bill was drafted to make Congress "claim responsibility for the troop casualties."
