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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... from Paterson's plan. That's the type of wishful thinking and lack of resolve that got us into the budget mess in the first place, Paterson's camp contends, but vulnerable Senate Democrats, especially those in the suburbs with school districts that will be hit hard by the cuts, are wary of a voter backlash. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver isn't onboard with Paterson's plan, either,...
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Clout St (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Posted by Rick Pearson at 4:45 p.m. The race for the Democratic nomination for governor got more combative today as Gov. Pat Quinn launched a TV ad accusing Comptroller Dan Hynes of skipping out during the state’s budget mess and...
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Chicago Tribune's Clout Street blog reports: The race for the Democratic nomination for governor got more combative today as Gov. Pat Quinn launched a TV ad accusing Comptroller Dan Hynes of skipping out during the state's budget mess and "hitting a spa in Chicago ." In response, the Hynes campaign said their candidate was merely getting a haircut down the street. The Hynes...
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Third Base Politics (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As the Ohio State Senate debates the final aspect of the biennial budget, Ted Strickland's billion dollar shortfall and how to fund it, the state's leaders need to consider what will be the greatest challenge to Ohio in the coming years. The impending massive budget deficit. How massive? More than eight times the size of the current mess. From this past May's Crain's Cleveland...
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Capitol Ideas with John L. Micek (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Is This Gov. Ed's Walter Cronkite Moment'Author Buzz Bissinger, who chronicled Gov. Ed's rise to national notoriety as America's Mayor in his book "," lets : "Though he knew deep cuts had to be made, he was committed to increases in public education and college tuition relief. He was committed to the right taxes to make the budget balance - on smokeless tobacco and natural gas extraction. But...
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THE METHODS REPORTER (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Live streaming video and open discussion thread for this Wednesday's Special Session of the City Council here on the Windy Citizen. Come here to see and react to Mayor Daley's budget address in real... (Like this story? Click the headline to vote it up on WindyCitizen.com)
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Chlorinated Liberty (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Shikha Dalmia , Adam Summers and Adrian Moore of the Reason Foundation discuss California's perpetual budget problem and the growing tendency of some lawmakers, including the Governor, to falsely blame the voters for"tying their hands" via the ballot initiative. They also note that if the if California's constitutional spending restriction known as the Gann Limit hadn't been neutered,...
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Clout St (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
From today's print edition: By Monique Garcia Tribune Reporter When lawmakers set an agenda following the January ouster of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, they had two priorities: strengthening ethics laws and fixing the state's budget mess. Nine months later, they...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Abdicating responsibility. Wasting time. Driving the state of Michigan off a financial cliff. All three phrases describe the dickering in Lansing over small-picture budget items, while the clock ticks to 19 days past the deadline for a 2009-10 budget.
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
When lawmakers set an agenda following the January ouster of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, they had two priorities: strengthening ethics laws and fixing the state's budget mess. Nine months later, they are returning to Springfield to deal with more of the same. The fall veto session that starts Wednesday is supposed to be reserved for legislators to act on any changes the governor has...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
DES MOINES, IA. -- Republican Party of Iowa State Chairman Matt Strawn today challenged Governor Culver to finally take responsibility for the budget crisis facing Iowa and come clean with Iowans about our budget deficit. Strawn said, “The days of hiding your budget mess are [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell said this morning that he was "pleased with the progress" made on the state budget, now 101 days past due, and hoped to be able to sign a spending plan immediately after the legislature sends it to him.
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THE CENTRIST (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... taxpayers in tightening their fiscal belts, our representatives have proposed a general fund 2010 budget of $27,950,000,000. To make matters worse, while most "budget" references are to the general fund portion of the budget, state government's total operating budget exceeds $61,000,000,000. Where will the money come from? Increased taxes for one. The most...
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AssortedStuff (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Back to the continuing budget mess here in the overly-large school district. The superintendent and others have been holding meetings with employee groups and community members (and distributing poorly worded surveys) to get suggestions on what programs and people should be cut to make things balance financially. However, he’s asking the wrong question. Instead the discussion needs...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... a detour over the weekend, rolling out a new ad that misfires badly:"Hynes claims he'll cut the budget line by line," says the narrator. "But as comptroller for 12 years, he signed off on every single state check. And when Gov. Quinn had to make tough decisions to fix our budget mess, Hynes skipped town -- flying to , taking a vacation, hitting a spa in Chicago."Hold on, Pat.A...
