WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

H+tOCKS.. Ed Richardson, the Alabama school superintendent, said the gov­ ern ment would almost certainly spend less on schools in the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. and possibly the year after that as well. And several states are concerned about the impact of war, including the deployment of military overseas and the effect on gasoline prices. “It’s certainly going to have its Three conventions scheduled for costs in terms of the diversion of September have been canceled, part­ certain manpower from private to ly because the organizers did not military use,” said James LeBas, know when the airport would reopen. chief revenue estimator for the Tex­ Each would have filled at least 2.000 as comptroller’s office. “In the short hotel rooms a night. run we can expect to see oil prices higher than before, and if the conflict “The short-term corporate meet­ continues there will probably be con­ ings business pretty much has dried tinued upper pressure.” up,” Mr. Moscaritolo said. “Compa­ No state has announced budget nies that already were under pres­ cuts yet, but several expect to soon. sure to reduce costs are now going to “Some of the plans we announce accelerate. You're going to see even on Thursday will reflect what has more cutbacks.” happened in the country,” said Joe Mr. Moscaritolo is hopeful that a: Shannahan, press secretary for Gov­ least some Americans will be drawn ernor Vilsack of Iowa. to Massachusetts because of land­ “Right now I can’t say how much marks that connect Americans to it’s going to affect what happens or their revolutionary past. what cuts are made, because we’re “You can sit in the Old North still planning,” Mr. Shannahan said. Church and visualize hanging the “What we know is that we have got to lanterns; you can walk through Paul do something. We can’t continue to Revere’s house and touch it,” he work in the same way.” And in Indiana, Andrew Stoner, a said. Patriotism, might be the state’s spokesman for Governor O’Bannon, said, “We’re putting the brakes on all biggest draw right now. spending right now and looking for ways to make more cuts so we won’t be hit with something unexpected when our revenues don’t match the spending we’ve been doing.” Then there is the toll on cities that became pivotal pieces of the terror­ ist attacks. In Boston, where the flights of two of the hijacked airlin­ ers began, hotel occupancy this wee.k was about 45 percent at a time when occupancy usually hovers at 90 per­ cent to 95 percent, said Patrick Mos­ caritolo, director of the Greater Bos­ ton Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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