Finance Chronicle

buttons asked: If anyone could tell me the average amount of money Wisconsin makes on speeding tickets and what they send that money on I would greatly appreciate it. I couldn’t find anything on the internet, but maybe you’ll have better luck.

MADISON — Supporters of regional transit have always known it was a sensitive issue. It could go a long way to explaining why the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee couldn’t start its meeting on time Thursday.

LONG BEACH – A former finance officer with the Long Beach Unified School District has been convicted of embezzling nearly $100,000 from the district and from its charitable arm, the Long Beach Education Foundation.

Members of the state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee on Thursday debated the details of a regional transit authority proposal in the state budget.

On Tuesday candidates running for office were required by law to file campaign finance reports. However three Ruleville candidates — JoAnne Frothingham, Billy Marlow and Shirley Edwards — were alerted by Ruleville’s city clerk office that their reports were missing.

Rockwood School District names new Chief Finance Officer

He’s the finance minister in a center-right government and he’s been spearheading their charge for tax cuts and rollbacks in the welfare state. “This is not about the market economy,” he says.

Shares in Sigma Capital rose 11% after the Scottish investment business in which Sir Tom Hunter has a significant stake reported that it seemed to be getting easier to finance developments in the key commercial property market, providing another sign that the worst of the downturn may be over.

The Planning Commission has proposed setting up a National Electricity Fund with a corpus of Rs 1,00,000-Rs 1,50,000 crore to finance development of power transmission and distribution network by state utilities so as to reduce T&D losses.

An attorney who won a school finance lawsuit against the state of Kansas says legislators are headed toward violating state Supreme Court orders.