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Gov. Tom Corbett on Monday declared a fiscal emergency in Harrisburg, which allows him to assume financial control of the city and name the state's first municipal receiver. Empowered by [...]

Byline: DAWN WALTON HERITAGE FUND CALGARY -- Alberta's struggling nest egg, which has been neglected and drawn from under successive Tory governments, will get fresh support from Premier Alison Redford, [...]

Byline: Mary Helen Miller You might think that with all the deadlock and fiery rhetoric in Washington over the debt limit and budget deficit that Americans can't agree on how [...]

California will seek $5 billion in short-term loans from banks and other financial institutions this week, hoping to avoid the risk of being locked out of the markets if Congress [...]

New York State's prestigious teaching hospitals could lose more than $1 billion a year as part of plans under negotiation in Washington to reduce the federal deficit that the hospitals [...]

SEATTLE -- An alluring billboard beckoned to motorists on a busy industrial corridor here this spring. It displayed just one image, a panoramic view of a valley and mountains and [...]

ST. PAUL -- The shutdown of the State of Minnesota has forced the opening of a new hearing room here, where pleas have flowed forth, one after the next, for [...]

June 09--The North Hills School Board will vote again Monday on its $66.7 million budget proposal for 2011-12, having deadlocked on it 4-4 last week. The budget sets taxes at [...]

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. -- Every first and third Monday of the month for as long as anyone can remember, this city's elected commissioners have gathered in their musty second-floor chambers [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino State pensions are badly underfunded - and the situation is getting worse, fast. That's the upshot of a study released this week by the Pew Center on [...]

LOS ANGELES -- With Gov. Jerry Brown still unable to get agreement on cuts to the state budget, California legislators now have to endure a cut of their own: their [...]

ALBANY -- The State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, patted Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on the shoulder and then turned to a nearby lectern. ''Governor, I congratulate you,'' Senator [...]

AUSTIN, Tex. -- It is hard to overstate the budget-cutting furor that has gripped lawmakers in this capital, where the Republicans who control the Legislature and all statewide offices believe [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Negotiations between California Republican leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown on a package to close the state's huge budget deficit -- including a proposal to ask residents to [...]

As they talk of cutting pension contributions and raising premiums for state employee health care, having state employees pay to park in state garages, and mandating layoffs and furloughs at [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino About 40,000 public-sector employees crammed into the Wisconsin state Capitol and surrounding blocks in Madison Thursday, hoping to sway three Republican state senators to block a bill [...]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, escalating his battle with Albany over cuts to city programs, will announce plans to lay off nearly 4,700 teachers as part of a bleak budget to [...]

Byline: John Waggoner When you think of municipal bond investors, you typically think of quiet income investors whose biggest gripe might be having too many cards left over in canasta. [...]

In the year since Chris Christie was sworn in as governor of New Jersey, he has become something of a celebrity, thanks to his frequent clashes with unionized public employees [...]

Jonathan Weber writes a regular column for The Bay Citizen There are plenty of pat answers to the question of how California, with one of the world's most diverse and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The last time Jerry Brown was governor of California, voters passed Proposition 13, drastically slashing local property taxes and constraining lawmakers from raising any other taxes. Mr. [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Jerry Brown has seen this before: a budget in crisis, a Legislature divided, a state confronting the possibility that its glory days are behind it. But as [...]

At the Lynn County Courthouse in the West Texas town of Tahoka, the spiral staircase -- where the sheriff used to lead inmates from cramped top-floor cells to the courtroom [...]

We've had a big comfort blanket called state funding, and now we're being thrown out of the nest. STEVE SMITH, president of Universities U.K., which represents Britain's higher-learning institutions, on [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Faced with huge budget deficits and a stubbornly sour economy, California lawmakers began Thursday to approve a $126 billion state budget -- 99 days late -- including [...]

ST. LOUIS -- When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment will cost the State of Missouri. [...]

Every year, New York State issues a report that depicts its pension fund at the peak of health -- not a penny short of what it needs to pay retirees [...]

Byline: Marisol Bello Blane Beckwith wants to keep living at home with his mother and younger brother in Berkeley, Calif. For that to happen, Beckwith, 54, who has spinal muscular [...]

Byline: Larry Copeland Toll roads are increasingly emerging as the go-to strategy for states and metro areas eager to build and maintain expressways amid a recession that has battered government [...]

Byline: Sal Ruibal The Empire State Games have long been the gold standard in the 'state games' movement, providing an Olympics-like atmosphere for a spectrum of New York athletes. In [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED They do not expect any sympathy. They are, after all, Albany legislators. But their latest and perhaps most notable failure -- they are almost four months late in [...]

When the mayor's office -- with a certain amount of pardonable fanfare -- released a report on Monday claiming it could save the city's taxpayers $500 million using belt-tightening measures [...]

On January 18th, two days after taking the oath of office, I delivered my first address to the Joint Houses of the Virginia General Assembly. Waiting for our administration was [...]

Thank Heaven for those of you in New York who behave self-destructively. Without you, what would the politicians do to balance their budgets? There they were in Albany on Monday [...]

ALBANY -- Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders have tentatively agreed to allow the state and municipalities to borrow nearly $6 billion to help them make their required annual [...]

New York's painful fiscal crisis should be an opportunity to restructure state finances for the benefit of future generations. First, our legislators must take a stand against special interests, particularly [...]

The New York Legislature and Gov. David Paterson are deep into negotiations over the state's finances, but one thing is already certain: there will be sharp cuts and palpable pain [...]

Byline: Dennis Cauchon States facing tough times are eliminating commissions, merging departments and centralizing operations to stave off budget cuts and tax hikes. The moves represent the most sweeping attempts [...]

Saying he would not squander New Jersey's ''last, best hope'' to reverse its decline, Christopher J. Christie took office on Tuesday as the state's 55th governor, vowing to break through [...]

It didn't happen in any of his movies, but in real life we are about to witness the spectacle of California's 'Governator' crawling to Washington on his belly, tin cup [...]

Byline: Dennis Cauchon States start their new budget year today, reeling from the recession but sparing most citizens from painful cuts in education and health care. Arizona, California, Illinois, Ohio, [...]

Comcast will continue carrying the NFL Network after their contract expires at midnight Friday, as negotiations continued. Comcast planned to stop coverage Friday. Comcast and the N.F.L. are in court […]

For a millionaire, Gov. Mark Sanford has a reputation for frugality that borders on the extreme. Former employees say he has been known to require his staff to use both […]