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...connection between nests and violence continues to this day. The island of Koh Mak gets about $1.1 million in nest revenue every year, eight times more than the budget of some other Phatthalung subdistricts unblessed by nesting swiftlets. In 1997, the Thai government passed legislation to make the industry more transparent and ensure that government revenue from concessions is funneled back into local communities. But a string of unsolved murders on Koh Mak indicates hazardous aspects of the harvesting trade linger. Pradit Jariya, 35, has been administrative chief of the island for a year now. It's quite an achievement...
...have blocked all attempts by Democrats to cover any portion of the $26 billion shortfall with a tax increase. Tuition has more than doubled at the University of California in the past decade, rising to more than $8,700 for in-state students in fall 2009. Many of the budget cuts being negotiated behind closed doors will primarily affect the poor and the working class - including health coverage for the poor and the CalWORKs welfare-to-work program. But the severe funding reductions to public schools and to the university system - affecting not only the University of California, but also...
...Board of Regents approved on July 16 an emergency budget plan that would force 80% of the system's 180,000 employees to take unpaid furloughs of 11 to 26 days over the next year. UC president Mark Yudof said the furlough plan was preferable to layoffs in an enormous system that includes five medical centers, three national laboratories and 225,000 graduate and undergraduate students. UC officials have yet to secure agreement on the furlough plan from the unions that represent 35% of university employees. (See pictures of the career of California First Lady Maria Shriver...
...furloughs will only cover approximately a quarter of the UC deficit. The rest will come from a 10% increase in tuition, debt refinancing and dramatic budget cuts at individual UC campuses, as testimony to the Board of Regents from the system's chancellors revealed on July 15. At UC Berkeley, according to Chancellor Robert Birgenau, campus libraries will be closed on Saturdays and will no longer stay open 24 hours during final exams (a longtime campus tradition). He said UC Berkeley is "the only university among our competitors whose faculty are taking a furlough," adding that faculty salaries already...
...three years, due to increases in student enrollment not covered by state support," Block explained. At UC San Diego, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox said, "our student-faculty ratio is so high that students may not be able to graduate on time." (Read about the struggle to resolve California's budget crisis...