State budgets

It remains unknown if Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis will continue Rick Scott’s practice of limiting new bond issuance.

The state’s revenue forecast for the next two years shows increases of $442.8 million in fiscal 2020 and $386 million in fiscal 2021.

The delay in Washington means state and local budget planners lack critical federal inputs until early next year.

Revenues have exceeded expectations for both the month and the fiscal year.

A state economist reviewed a litany of problems lawmakers will face developing the state budget.

Budget officers in another 14 states have reported early fiscal 2019 revenues running within a half percentage of projections with only five telling the National Association of States Budget Officers they were collecting less than projected.

Pension and other retirement benefits still pose a stiff challenge, the organization said in its annual report card on the states.

“We have starved our state of a fundamental economic investment and job creator,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker will inherit $133.7 billion of unfunded pension liabilities, according to a nonpartisan state commission.

Four states will become the latest to require out-of-state e-commerce retailers to collect sales tax on Jan. 1 while 10 others aren’t expected to do so until later in 2019.

A $2 billion reserve may spur debate over the need for a gas tax hike for transportation projects.

Americans place almost $150 billion in illegal sports bets annually, according to the American Gaming Association.

The commonwealth's rainy-day fund exceeds $2 billion for the first time in 11 years, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said.

A Fitch Ratings looks at the credit implications of ideas pitched by Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces a plate of challenges as crowded as its trains at New York rush hour.

Site-selection expert John Boyd Jr. breaks down who won and lost in the Amazon "sweepstakes," the role of public incentives and the next wave of corporate relocation. Paul Burton hosts.

The soon-to-depart governor continues to fight Medicaid expansion despite plans by his replacement to immediately implement the program.

The Republican former state treasurer said he can help Louisiana residents better by remaining on “powerful committees” in Washington, D.C.

State lawmakers advanced a recreational cannabis legalization bill that moves the cash-strapped state closer to a new pot tax revenue stream.

A junk-rated $112 million deal without state backing will test the market's perceptions of the city's recovery from its Chapter 9 bankruptcy.