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Children, disabled, poor in DFL Legislature's crosshairs again

By Lawrence Schumacher, TC Daily Planet

Mental health services for children and adults, assistance for poor families, vulnerable adults, and home-based elderly adults would suffer the most from $154 million in cuts to a health and human services budget bill making its way through the Minnesota House of Representatives.MORE »

OPINION | Why conservatives should reject the Pawlenty budget

By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020
Despite all of the posturing about controlling growth in government, Governor Pawlenty does not have the most fiscally conservative budget on the table during the current round of budget negotiations.MORE »

YOUR TURN: St. Paul Public Schools Budget Forum

St. Paul Public Schools face a budget deficit of $25 million for the 2009-2010 school year. The school board has held public discussion sessions, and encouraged public input in a variety of settings. We want to encourage TC Daily Planet readers to use this forum as another opportunity for public discussion. The sidebar (yellow background, below) lists proposed budget cuts.MORE »

Budget battle joined again in Minnesota

By staff, Session Daily
Prefacing his revised 2010-2011 biennial budget as containing “some good news,” Gov.MORE »

From worse to bad

By Nick Busse, Session Weekly
Lawmakers finally have a definitive number to work with: $4.57 billion.

That’s the size of the budget deficit the Legislature will have to eliminate before its May 18 constitutional adjournment deadline. And while it may not sound like good news — actually, it’s the single largest deficit in state history — it could have been worse.MORE »

Budget forecast: time for new revenue & cuts

By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020
Excluding one-time federal recovery dollars, the state's revenue situation went from bad to worse with the release of the February forecast of state revenues and expenditures.MORE »

Getting an earful

By Susan Hegarty, Session Weekly
Solutions for solving the estimated $4.8 billion deficit next biennium were few and far between at more than 20 town hall meetings held across the state the past two weeks. However, there was plenty of hand-wringing over the impact of Gov.MORE »

Share your views on the state's budget crisis

By staff, Workday Minnesota
What can we do to resolve Minnesota's impending budget crisis? In the next couple weeks, legislators will hold a series of public meetings across the state to hear from you.

Nationwide, 34 of 50 states project budget deficits for 2010, analysts report.
Minnesota's budget deficit is the 10th largest and accounts for 15 percent of the state budget --or $5 billion.MORE »

Meeting the State Budget Challenge

By Robert H. Bruininks, President, University of Minnesota
This message was sent by President Robert H.MORE »
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