Budgets

The Legislature is considering bills imposing new requirements on Florida cities and counties to increase taxes and approve bond issues.

After seven years as governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback is joining the Trump administration as ambassador for religious freedom.

The stakes are high with two of the state’s general obligation ratings one notch away from speculative grade.

The first full year of Philadelphia soda tax collections came in $12.2 million below projections.

The governor wants to neutralize the effects of the new law to make it revenue-neutral for the state government.

Against a backdrop of chronic state budget strife, Jefferies will price the Commonwealth Financing Authority’s tobacco master settlement bonds this week.

The "transformative" effect of landing the second Amazon headquarters is likely to help the economy of the winning government, according to S&P.

The increasing saturation of the Northeast market with casinos bodes poorly for states expecting tax windfalls, analysts said.

Oil appears to be making a steady comeback, lifting prospects for the key producing states, according to Fitch Ratings.

First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan put the price tag at $425 million over four years.

Gov. Rick Snyder delivered his eighth and final State of the State speech.

The latest continuing resolution leaves state and cities with no clarity on federal budget variables that may affect their own spending plans. And the debt ceiling looms larger.

The state will still review proposed and amended budgets, requests to issue debt and proposed collective bargaining agreements.

The $55 million deal would be the second leg of financing needed for the $571 million project.

Gov. John Bel Edwards released a spending plan for 2019 targeting health care and higher education to bridge much of the deficit.

State agencies are also holding $2.3 billion of bills that can’t be paid until lawmakers approve appropriations, the state comptroller said.

Calling his two-year budget "difficult but honest," Gov. Matt Bevin cut most state agency budgets by 6.25% and borrowed to fund reserves.

A bill was filed to put Ball State University in charge of the Muncie school district.

The council's Democratic majority boycotted a vote that Mayor Erin Stewart had called "very, very important."

Mark Dayton's proposed capital budget would dole out more than $500 million for higher education projects.