May 2, 2013 in Lake County News-Chronicle
The Lake Superior School District school board held a special meeting before a full house on Tuesday to discuss looming budget cuts under consideration for next year. Continue Reading
February 28, 2013 in Worthington Daily Globe
ST. PAUL Talk of tax increases continues even as economists anticipate a smaller state budget deficit.
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February 5, 2013 in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a short-term deficit reduction package of spending cuts and tax revenue that will delay the effective date of steeper automatic cuts now scheduled to kick in on March 1. Obama said the looming cuts would be economically damaging and must be avoided. Continue Reading
January 17, 2013 in The Daily Republic
With new power, senator focuses on thorny fiscal issues
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November 20, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Republicans Rick Berg, John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer should follow the lead of the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council by supporting a grand bargain, thereby putting America first, North Dakota second and Grover Norquist, if he’s on the list at all, a very distant third. Continue Reading
October 28, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The Simpson-Bowles proposal is bipartisan, it’s realistic and now that the chief executives of some of America’s leading employers have weighed in, it can and should be done. Continue Reading
October 12, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON The United States has now spent $1 trillion more than it’s taken in for four straight years. Continue Reading
March 22, 2012 in Alexandria Echo Press
According to a preliminary budget, Alexandria Public Schools faces a $2.1 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2012-2013.
The district plans to start trimming non-personnel budget items things like textbooks, supplies, technology, summer school and activities and, in doing so, eliminate $780,000.
It’s a start, but there’s $1.3 million more to cut. Continue Reading
December 8, 2011 in The Daily Republic
The market values of the public-pension plan’s investments are down about 5 percent from where they stood July 1, state investment officer Matt Clark reported Thursday. Continue Reading
December 6, 2011 in The Daily Republic
RAPID CITY (AP) Defense contractor Northrop Grumman will close its Rapid City office by the end of April, with some employees losing their jobs and others being assigned to work from home. Continue Reading
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