State Finances

If You Build it, They Won't Come

Joel Judd | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Private Prisons, Psychiatric, State-Finances, Solitary Confinement, Prison, Sentences, Prison Sentence, Colorado Prisons, Denver News

CSP II, Colorado's newest solitary confinement prison, cost several hundred million dollars. We've used a small part for one year and are about to mothball it. It will likely never again be used for any purpose.

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No Cash For Insanity Test

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.08.2012

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Finances are threatening to delay the trial of a university professor charged with killing three colleagues – the secon...

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Jan Brewer Wants To Buy Back State Capitol After Pushing Sale

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Governor Jan Brewer, Jan Brewer State of the State, Jan Brewer Arizona Capitol, Bonds, Arizona Capitol, Jan Brewer, Video, State of the State, State and Local Government, State Finances, Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Politics, Jan Brewer Arizona, Arizona Capitol Sale, State-of-the-State-Address, Politics News

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has announced that all she wants for Valentine's Day is to burn a mortgage. Brewer said in her State of the State Monda...

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States Play Musical Chairs With Calendar

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, Election Laws, 2012 Election, Election Day, Gop 2012 Primary, 2012 Primary Calendar, Natonal Conference of State Legislatures, State and Local Government, New York Primary, 2012 Primary, State Finances, Elections 2012, Primary Elections 2012, Primary Elections, Election 2012, Voting, Video, Politics News

Dwindling state revenues and new federal election laws are among the reasons states have been changing the dates of primary elections in 2012. As more...

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Local Expenses And Federal Cuts Stretch States For 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Scott Pattison, Year-in-Review, Video, Dan Crippen, State and Local Government, Fiscal Survey of the States, State Finances, National Association of State Budget Officers, National Governors Association, Property Taxes, Medicaid, Higher Education, Education Spending, Politics News

A rise in Medicaid costs, combined with the end of federal stimulus funds and a continued decline in property tax receipts at the local level will com...

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Revenues Vary State-To-State

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: State Budgets, Neil Abercrombie, State Revenue, New York Politics, Idaho-Politics, Tax Collection, Hawaii Politics, Robert Bentley, Andrew Cuomo, Video, Revenue Forecasts, Butch Otter, State and Local Government, State Finances, Alabama Politics, Politics News

New reports indicate that both Alabama and New York have seen revenue drops in recent years, while one state reports a jump and another reports holdin...

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Governors Give Recommendations To Super Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Video, Super Committee, Congress Deficit Reduction, Congress Super Committee, Spectrum-Auctions, State and Local Government, State Finances, National Governors Association, Medicaid, Medicaid Spending, Dave Heineman, Jack Markell, Medicaid Cuts, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, the National Governors Association asked the congressional super committee on deficit reduction to keep state finances in mi...

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18-Month Wait For Divorce In San Francisco

sfgate.com | Michelle Terris / the Chronicle | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: State Finances, California Budget, Divorce News, Divorce Finance, San Francisco Budget, Divorce, San Francisco, Divorce Wait, Divorce News

It will soon take hours to pay a traffic ticket in San Francisco, months to get court records and at least a year and a half to get a divorce. With a ...

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California State Finances

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Moving Forward on Tax Reform

Joel Judd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Welfare, State Finances, Tax Policy, Tax Reform, Mental Illness, Colorado Lobbyists, Colorado Budget, Denver News

"No proof, no money" is the rule for social services in Colorado. That rule is what I am hoping the legislature will apply to tax credits and other tax incentives.

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Many States Appear To Be In A Recession

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recession, US Recession, State Finances, State Budgets, Business News

The finances of many states have deteriorated so badly that they appear to be in a recession, regardless of whether that's true for the nation as a wh...

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