Lawmakers Asked to Raise Taxes to Fix NM Budget

ANGEL FIRE, N.M. - Social services advocates and a labor union representing government workers are urging New Mexico legislators to consider raising taxes to help solve a looming state budget deficit.Full story.

Eugene Rogers has spent most of his life on Chicago's Far South Side, an area Rogers calls a "public transit desert [that] has always been pushed to the back burner."

So Wednesday's vote by the Chicago Transit Authority's board to extend the Red Line by more than 5 miles south to his part of the city is an outstretched hand to disadvantaged minority neighborhoods marred by empty lots, poverty and a feeling of isolation, said Rogers, 69.
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