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Sacramento, CA, USA. The Legislative Analyst’s Office in California has been described as the conscience of the Capitol.
Or, as one longtime capitol columnist so colorfully put it, “the skunk that ruins the budget garden party the governor and
08-20-10
Word count: 134
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Washington, DC, USA. North Shore Community College, located outside Boston, joined the glitzy side of the green-building trend last November when it broke ground on the first state-owned “zero net energy” building in Massachusetts. The 58,000-s
08-15-10
Word count: 147
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Washington, DC, USA. When Martin O’Malley became Maryland’s governor in 2007, one of his first moves was to double the number of cameras used to spy on cars. The cameras, stationed at toll booths and parking garages and mounted on police cars,
08-14-10
Word count: 186
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Salem, OR, USA. Long before the Tea Party became the national symbol for lower taxes, Oregon voters told their government to keep its hands off their money. The state is one of five without a sales tax because residents voted nine times over the ye
08-12-10
Word count: 209
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Sacramento, CA, USA. California’s Democratic and Republican parties both held mock bake sales last month at the Capitol to protest each other’s “half-baked” budget ideas for plugging a $19 billion deficit for the year that began July 1 with
08-08-10
Word count: 156
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Madison, WI, USA. Wisconsin lawmakers grimly looked ahead to their two-year state budget early last year as a projected $5.7 billion deficit ballooned to $6.6 billion. Every state program was on the chopping block, but Medicaid, the health insuranc
08-06-10
Word count: 166
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Washington, DC, USA. State officials in the United States breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday (Aug. 4) when a $26 billion aid package for the states cleared a key procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate. The measure is likely to become law
08-06-10
Word count: 153
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Washington, DC, USA. Anyone making a long drive through New Mexico next year may want to plan bathroom breaks strategically. State officials are considering closing nearly half of the state’s 32 highway rest stops, in a move that could save the s
07-30-10
Word count: 142
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Washington, DC, USA. After enduring two successive years of crippling budget deficits, American states may have slightly better times ahead, according to a new report issued by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Nearly every US s
07-29-10
Word count: 170
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Washington, DC, USA. Starting late this week through mid-August, 16 states will kick off an event that has become a ritual of back-to-school season. They will temporarily suspend sales taxes on pens, pencils, binders and bookbags, as well as modera
07-28-10
Word count: 163
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Little Rock, AR, USA. The Arkansas Department of Higher Education is accustomed to fielding a few thousand applications for the state’s college scholarship programs.
But this year, the office has been swamped with about 55,000 applications, almo
07-24-10
Word count: 197
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Washington, DC, USA. Americans are smoking less and less. That’s good news for public health, but it creates an ironically nasty side effect for many state budgets. They have grown dependent on an annual stream of money from tobacco companies, an
07-23-10
Word count: 153
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Pennsylvania sent a warning shot across New Jersey’s bow on Sunday (July 18), opening Las Vegas-style table games at a trio of casinos not far from the states’ shared border. The move — combined with the earlier opening of t
07-22-10
Word count: 176
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Washington, DC, USA. More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more than at any time in the program’s almost 50-year history.
Evidence
07-09-10
Word count: 143
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Washington, DC, USA. When Washington State passed a tax on soda and other sugary beverages in April, it seemed like momentum was building nationally for a new kind of tax. Washington’s law, which imposes a tax of 2 cents for every 12 ounces of so
07-09-10
Word count: 173
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Two months ago, as Missouri lawmakers were wrestling with a $500 million budget gap and their legislative session was winding down, Governor Jay Nixon implored them to pass comprehensive reforms to the state's tax credit programs
07-07-10
Word count: 167
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Washington, DC, USA. Freshman New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, won a big victory this week when he pushed a deeply controversial state budget through the Democratic-led Legislature by the narrowest of margins. But the tough work li
07-03-10
Word count: 150
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Washington, DC, USA. As Congress continues to squabble over whether to provide additional Medicaid dollars to cash-strapped states, a dozen governors used the July 1 state budget deadline to make their case for the money.
Their argument: Without $
07-02-10
Word count: 164
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Washington, DC, USA. The worst may be over as the bleeding in state budgets finally slowed this year, but the repercussions of how lawmakers made up the more than $100 billion in budget shortfalls to balance their fiscal 2011 spending plans will be
07-01-10
Word count: 161
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Washington, DC, USA. For the first time since taking office in 2003, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell may sign a budget on time. Like 45 other states, Pennsylvania faced a budget deadline on June 30th, and lawmakers spent the day hammering out last-min
07-01-10
Word count: 325
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Washington, DC, USA. A new fiscal year is set to begin, and at least 22 states are counting on federal Medicaid money that has yet to materialize. A congressional proposal to approve more Medicaid funding — which was originally part of the stimul
06-30-10
Word count: 300
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Washington, DC, USA. A few weeks ago, ten Northeastern states held an unusual sort of auction. What the states were selling was credits for carbon emissions. The buyers were electric utilities, who purchased the credits either to allow themselves t
06-28-10
Word count: 203
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Washington, DC, USA. When California furloughed more than 200,000 state workers recently, the personnel move was supposed to save the state $1.7 billion over 17 months. But the actual savings will pencil out quite a bit less than that, once all the
06-24-10
Word count: 144
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Concord, NH, USA. As the New Hampshire legislature wound up a one-day special session earlier this month to pass a budget-balancing compromise, there was a sense on both sides of the aisle that lawmakers were merely buying time before the next roun
06-22-10
Word count: 186
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Albany, NY, USA. New York state's main checking account is stuck in the red, raising the possibility that the state will once again have to delay payments at the end of the month.
Meanwhile, a budget stalemate between legislators and Governor Davi
06-21-10
Word count: 114
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Washington, DC, USA. To see the way many cash-strapped states ginned up revenue for the coming fiscal year, Colorado is a good place to look.
Like virtually all states, Colorado was in survival mode this year. It wasn’t as dire as Arizona, which
06-17-10
Word count: 177
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Fairfax, VA, USA. President Obama visited Michigan’s Macomb Community College last summer to announce his American Graduation Initiative, raising hopes on the campuses of community colleges around the country.
Community colleges, he said, would
06-16-10
Word count: 133
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Texas Governor Rick Perry, pictured at left, is among the toughest critics of President Obama’s health care initiative. “Texas leaders will continue to do everything in our power to fight this federal excess,” he declared when Congress approv
06-14-10
Word count: 141
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Washington, DC, USA. A couple of weeks ago, Oklahoma’s Board of Education voted to deny state funds to a small school in Adair County near the Arkansas line, effectively closing it.
It was a traumatic move, but the school had not been able to ma
06-09-10
Word count: 160
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Augusta, ME, USA. Maine is about to answer the question of whether a state can overhaul its income and sales tax structure to better withstand the ups and downs of the economy.
Voters will be asked in Tuesday’s (June 8) primary election to give
06-07-10
Word count: 142
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Washington, DC, USA. States expect to hit bottom this year after two years of steep declines in revenue that created historic budget gaps.
But no one is cracking open any champagne bottles yet.
“2011 is going to be the worst year … but the go
06-07-10
Word count: 169
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Washington, DC, USA. As states sort out the many implications of the federal health care overhaul, one of the biggest questions is how much the law actually will cost. For now, that’s impossible to answer with any precision. The law expands Medic
05-28-10
Word count: 165
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Washington, DC, USA. In 2008, as the economy dive into recession, Charles Covington saw an opportunity to save the state of Florida some money.
State government buys billions of dollars' worth of desks, software, professional consulting and other
05-26-10
Word count: 182
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Washington, DC, USA. This is turning out to be a pivotal year in public pension policy, as states move to bring down escalating retirement costs that threaten their governments’ stability.
Since the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, nearly every state
05-21-10
Word count: 173
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Waltham, MA, USA. The wealth gap between white and African-American families showed a measurable increase of more than four times between the years 1984-2007, and middle-income white households now own far more wealth than high-income African Ameri
05-20-10
Word count: 144
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Stockton, KS, USA. A few years ago, Kansas lawmakers decided to shake up the state’s corrections budget. They poured millions of dollars into community programs intended to rehabilitate offenders and help them find jobs.
The changes, passed in 2
05-20-10
Word count: 138
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Honolulu, HI, USA. Just as the economy was beginning its nosedive, the state of Hawaii doubled down on its investment in an exotic financial instrument known as auction-rate securities.
Between July 2007 and February 2008, the state’s holdings i
05-18-10
Word count: 141
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Washington, DC, USA. In November 2008, after years of back-and-forth among politicians and the public, voters in Maryland finally got to answer the question: Do you want slot machines? The answer was a resounding “yes,” with 59 percent voting i
05-14-10
Word count: 138
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Concord, NH, USA. A funny thing happened recently when New Hampshire looked for a new way to pay for the health care of thousands of retired state and local government workers.
Democrats came to agree with Republicans. Labor representatives agre
05-13-10
Word count: 128
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Washington, DC, USA. The economic slowdown that has battered the bottom line of states has also reduced their take of gambling taxes, according to a new report.
The American Gaming Association said gaming revenues dropped 5.5 percent across the co
05-10-10
Word count: 122
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Washington, DC, USA. After two years of plummeting revenues, state governments are slowly starting a long climb back this spring as tax collections exceed estimates in several states. With two months left in the current fiscal year for most states,
05-07-10
Word count: 181
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Washington, DC, USA. Last summer, teenager Michael Gaulden and his family were hungry and living out of the family car when he landed a summer job as a janitor at a San Diego high school. With his first few paychecks, Michael did his laundry, bough
04-30-10
Word count: 156
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Trenton, NJ, USA. At a press conference in his Capitol office here last week, Governor Chris Christie was asked for his reaction to comments made by one of New Jersey’s local school superintendents.
“Chris Christie is determined to run New Jer
04-29-10
Word count: 163
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Fairfax, VA, USA. It’s been a decade since Pennsylvania became the first state to use a technology that is like eBay in reverse to save money on government purchases. But despite the potential to create big savings, only a few states have taken a
04-26-10
Word count: 173
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Washington, DC, USA. The Obama administration wants to change the way politicians fight for jobs by encouraging regions — instead of individual states and cities — to compete for economic development projects.
Accomplishing this sea change in
04-26-10
Word count: 134
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Washington, DC, USA. Vermont Governor Jim Douglas and several state tax experts marked Tax Day last Thursday (April 15) on Capitol Hill, where they debated the merits of several congressional proposals that could give the federal government a bigge
04-19-10
Word count: 164
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Washington, DC, USA. A new report finds that seven states lead the nation in budget transparency, providing the public with comprehensive and easily searchable information about government spending.
Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri,
04-17-10
Word count: 569
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Bismarck, ND, USA. As Congress returns this week to writing a bill overhauling regulation of the banking industry, some states are pondering homegrown solutions to the credit crisis.
And for inspiration, they’re looking to a place that is far aw
04-16-10
Word count: 161
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Washington, DC, USA. States that are mulling deep cuts in spending also must contend with the reality that they could lose millions of dollars in matching federal money.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, for example, has made headlines by propos
04-15-10
Word count: 121
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Washington, DC, USA. Fourteen states, the District of Columbia and the federal government raised cigarette taxes last year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The increases ranged from 10 cents a
04-10-10
Word count: 118
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