Cushing was one of five board members to vote for a series of sweeping budget cuts in January, intended to pull the district out of a $14 million deficit.
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Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
President Emmanuel Macron’s government in France, for example, has been periodically threatened by popular protest against cuts in social welfare, especially retirement benefits.
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John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
Jessica Hecht, playing one of the hostages, adds her typically off-beat depth, and I was most amused by John Ortiz as the FBI agent with the standard G-man voice and personality to match.
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Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
It’s spread out over a clutch of open-air bamboo pavilions which overlook the Ayung River (the sound of babbling water adds an extra layer of Zen to the treatments).
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