And on Monday, Mr. Vance may have provided the best booster yet: he announced at an officewide meeting that prosecutors would be getting raises, after not receiving them last year because of budget constraints.
The launch itself (more precisely, its relative shoestring budget, courtesy of reusable boosters, and resulting drastic cost reduction for space launches) may result in, or at least trigger, a genuine new era in space — what my friend Casey Handmer calls "the era of post-scarcity heavy lift launch".
Still, the wrestling team at Marquette University was eliminated in 2001, despite being supported entirely by a booster group outside the university budget.
For example, Sullivan (who's a former minor league player) said that high school booster clubs are using their club budgets to buy iPads for their school's baseball and softball teams.
Sills IV, as the president of the team's booster club, contributed amply to their travel budget.
At Wonderland Avenue Elementary School last year, where there are about 550 kids, the operating budget for the year, not including teacher salaries or booster fundraising, was around $50,000.
Underscoring his transformation from Tea Party booster to political realist, Mr. Scott, a Republican, also proposed budget increases for the environment and the state's university system.
With pretty much no budget, his civic position essentially boils down to "being something of a history booster for the borough".
Athletic boosters began impromptu planning of a fund-raising dinner during the Board of Education's budget session tonight.
