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Byline: Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Virginia lawmakers and Gov. Glenn Youngkin have reached a deal aimed at averting a nasty confrontation over the state budget, agreeing to [...]

Byline: Katie Shepherd The Maryland General Assembly reached a budget deal Wednesday that will raise up to $340 million in new taxes and fees next year after weeks of contentious [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul's new spending plan, unveiled on Tuesday, also called for investments in mental health care and for an important change to the way that cannabis is taxed. Gov. [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan A proposal by the administration of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to impose deep cuts on the state's transportation budget and close a $3.3 billion gap faced opposition [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan and Erin Cox The administration of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is proposing to tackle a multibillion-dollar, long-term budget shortfall by imposing drastic cuts on transportation spending that [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - For the first half of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's term, budget battles in Virginia's Capitol raged over how to spend billions of extra dollars pumped into [...]

Gov. Tony Evers used a quirky rule to edit the state budget and raise the cap on public school funding -- until the year 2425. It took only a few [...]

Byline: Julia Maruca May 17Hempfield Area High School students talked about school start times, stress, mental health, class workload, and free breakfast during a Wednesday visit from Pa. Gov. Josh [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the adviser, Adam Sullivan, agreed that he should step down after The New York Times detailed how his guidance and behavior were questioned by others. A [...]

The News New York City's transit system dodged a budget disaster this week after Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers agreed to give the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the money it [...]

The News New York City's transit system dodged a budget disaster this week after Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers agreed to give the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the money it [...]

The News Nearly three weeks have passed since the April 1 deadline for a state budget, and leaders in Albany still seem to have a ways to go. Each year, [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul had proposed revising the state's landmark 2019 law in an effort to reduce costs for state residents. Under pressure from scientists, environmentalists and lawmakers, Gov. Kathy Hochul [...]

Byline: Erin Cox Facing economic uncertainty and the end of a historic infusion of pandemic-related cash, Maryland state lawmakers gave final approval late Monday to a $63 billion budget that [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - General Assembly budget negotiators hope to meet next week to try to break the billion-dollar stalemate that prevented them from passing changes to the [...]

The money, which was previously allocated in the infrastructure bill, will go to the Second Avenue Subway extension and new Hudson River train tunnels, two of the most long-awaited transit [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Mar. 1Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday in a visit to Pittsburgh that his upcoming budget address will include funding increases for business innovation programs meant to attract [...]

The mayor visited the State Capitol to push back on elements in Gov. Kathy Hochul's state budget proposal, including a plan for New York City to pay $500 million to [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal included a multiyear plan to help bail out the city's ailing subway system and address the migrant crisis. ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled [...]

Byline: Erin Cox Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday unveiled a preliminary budget with large investments in mental health facilities and warned the incoming administration that it would be unwise [...]

Byline: Ryan Deto Sep. 6An adjustment in Pennsylvania's state budget will free up an additional $175 million this fiscal year to improve roads and bridges. For years, a portion of [...]

With the first day of school in New York less than a month away, the city is caught up in a contentious legal battle over whether to cut school funding. [...]

Byline: Mark J. Rozell Democrats in Virginia's Senate took a politically risky vote last month when they killed an amendment Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin made to the state budget that [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella BRISTOL, Va. - For the first time in about a half-century, this rural community on the Tennessee border has scrounged up what it needs to build a [...]

Byline: Casey Parks Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday that New Mexico will cover the costs of child care for most residents through June 2023. The benefit, which covers [...]

New York's agreement on a $220 billion state budget includes a raft of nonfiscal measures, including a three-year window to resume the legal sale of to-go drinks. ALBANY, N.Y. -- [...]

The governor won policy measures aimed at easing New Yorkers' concerns over crime and rising prices, but alienated some fellow Democratic lawmakers. ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Kathy Hochul unexpectedly became [...]

Gov. Kathy Hochul's first budget also includes billions in child care funding, a green light for three casinos and a return of to-go drinks. ALBANY, N.Y. -- Faced with rising [...]

Byline: David Collins Mar. 30The Freedom of Information Commission, the backbone of transparency in Connecticut government, has experienced pandemic-related increases in its case backlog and proactively sought money in its [...]

In the first budget address of his second term, Gov. Philip Murphy responded to New Jersey voters' discontent at a time of surging gas costs and high taxes. Gas prices [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Ralph Northam, D, unveiled the final proposed budget of his term in office Thursday, a two-year plan that uses big surpluses to [...]

Gov. Gavin Newsom and fellow Democrats responded to strong lobbying from small nonprofit theaters to support their reopening. LOS ANGELES -- California's beleaguered network of small, nonprofit theaters will receive [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday approved more than $66 million to replenish the District of Columbia's emergency security fund, which was repeatedly depleted as costs spiked [...]

The fund, which could provide payments to hundreds of thousands of people excluded from other pandemic relief, ignited a battle among state lawmakers before it was approved this week. When [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a two-year state budget that would provide 5% pay raises for teachers, state employees, [...]

A $44.8 billion spending plan unveiled Tuesday by Gov. Phil Murphy calls for no new taxes and fully funds the state pension program for the first time since 1996. It [...]

Feb. 7On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf formally released his latest budget proposal. It was hardly a surprise. This is not the governor's first budget, after all. In his seventh trip [...]

The governor floated an increase in income tax on top earners as he warned that the state might have to cut $2.6 billion in school and Medicaid spending. Gov. Andrew [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gov. Larry Hogan will release a fiscal 2022 budget on Wednesday that he says offers more money for education - including record investments in [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider and Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's General Assembly wrapped up work Friday on the state's pandemic-damaged budget and concluded an extraordinary special session in which [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider and Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's General Assembly was poised Friday to wrap up work on the state's pandemic-damaged budget and conclude an extraordinary special [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - The visitors' entrance to the state Capitol is boarded up. The governor is quarantined in the Executive Mansion with covid-19. Coveted parking spots around [...]

A plan would set aside money at birth for children in most families, giving them a financial lift when they reach 18 and enter adulthood. Most children born in New [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Ralph Northam, laying out plans on Friday for next week's special session of the General Assembly, said the state can avoid slashing critical [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday called the General Assembly into a special session next month to remake a state budget upended by the coronavirus [...]

Byline: Erin Cox As Maryland grapples with the economic fallout from the pandemic, the Board of Public Works on Wednesday cut $413 million out of the state's budget - one [...]