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How the Minnesota Legislature’s struggle to complete a state budget measures up: Exceptional, terrible, or neither?
Budget delays have been common across the country amid lousy economic forecasts, federal uncertainty and other factors.
State budget rolls through Republican-led Senate
It took four hours of debate over 20 amendments, but a $15.4 billion two-year state budget proposal easily cleared the state Senate Thursday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman James Gray, R-Rochester, ...
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Santa Rosa eyes homeless service cuts as multiyear deficit, diminished federal and state funds, force hard choices
The North Bay’s two largest local governments, Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, have each poured tens of millions of dollars ...
Illinois rental assistance program sees funding cut for 2026 budget in another blow to state, city housing programs
Illinois’ court-based rental assistance program for tenants struggling to pay rent and their landlords will stop accepting ...
California state workers push back against July 1 return to office, budget cuts
Hundreds of state workers showed up to protest at the California State Capitol on Thursday, fighting to continue working from ...
Maryland Association of Counties says hardship continues from state budget cuts
Yes, Maryland lawmakers successfully eliminated a $3 billion deficit in the state’s fiscal 2026 budget, but what is left in ...
Senate gives $1 billion tax cut to wealthy Ohioans in state budget
Ohio now has three different plans to fund K-12 education, pay for a Cleveland Browns stadium, and give property tax relief.