DENVER — Warning that higher education is facing a funding crisis next year, Gov. Bill Ritter named businessman Dick Monfort and attorney Jim Ly...
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The cash-strapped agency that runs New York City subways and buses is considering a proposal to end the more than 60-year-old practic...
nydailynews.com | By Kenneth Lovett | Posted 12.13.2009 | New York
New York City will lose at least $84 million in funding under Gov. Paterson's plan to withhold payments to keep the state afloat this month....
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school board has approved a budget plan that calls for more than 5,000 job cuts. District Superintendent Ramon Co...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Unable to get the Legislature to agree on how to address a $3.2 billion deficit, New York Gov. David Paterson said he's taking $1...
Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Gov. David A. Paterson took to the radio, trying, in interviews on half a dozen stations, to add a sense of urgency to the budget negotiations, and re...
nypost.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
In one of the steepest budget cuts he's ordered in recent years, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday demanded spending slashes of 4 percent in fiscal year 2010 ...
Posted 11.07.2009 | Denver
Governor Ritter announced Friday his budget proposal for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, which includes $260 million in cuts to K-12 education funding, and...
Posted 10.30.2009 | Denver
Governor Ritter's surrogates and his opponents traded barbs Thursday over the Governor's recently announced budget cuts. In response to the the Govern...
AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Colorado authorities said they inadvertently released a sex offender from prison under a moneysaving early release initiative, promptin...
The Colorado Independent | Joseph Boven | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
IDAHO SPRINGS -- Kicking off a series of planned town halls here Thursday, Gov. Bill Ritter told a crowd that included many concerned county employees...
Terry Gardner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact
The Dubnoff Center For Child Development plans to host its 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament in hopes of offsetting the massive California budget cuts that have stripped our educational institutions bare.
The Denver Post | Christopher N. Osher | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Denver City Council members expressed concern Wednesday over Mayor John Hickenlooper's plan to transfer management of four city recreation centers to ...
Carol Hedges | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
We've come a long way from Tocqueville's engaged America. I am happy to report, however, that thoughtful, respectful and civil discourse still thrives in the great state of Colorado.
Joel Judd | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver
We are faced with cutting mental health programs, raising tuition, cutting medical services for the poor. Yet we seem to have plenty of dough for corporate welfare that simply does not work.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics
I can't afford to volunteer for the community anymore. Got to spend every free moment earning money or taking care of my mom and son.
WSJ | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
With the budget deficit soaring toward $2 trillion, the Department of Justice has figured out how to play its part: double-sided photocopying. More T...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
Reading about the huge budget cuts almost every state in the country is being forced to make quickly puts the $4.7 trillion we have pumped into the financial sector into perspective, and leaves us pondering: what else we could have done with that money?
Saree Makdisi | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
State support once covered about 75 percent of the UC's core spending. Today, it covers less than half, and it is set to decline even further.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
California's economy is in free fall. This appears to be of little concern to Governor Schwarzenegger, who instead prefers to focus his energy, attention and political capital on the ballooning state budget.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
The California budget crisis continues to be a showdown between a recalcitrant Executive and a weak-kneed Legislature.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Thanks to an economic crisis his good friend George W. Bush gave us, Schwarzenegger is launching a frontal assault against virtually all of the state's public sector institutions.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
Is a Democratic administration and a Democratically controlled Congress presiding over one of the most regressive wealth transfers in history?
AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver