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Arizona: Budget Crisis

Tue, 06/24/2008 - 16:53

Senate rolls out its own budget

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1560|title=State Senate President Tim Bee|desc=Campaign photo|link=none|align=left|width=420|height=280]PHOENIX -- A day after Arizona House Speaker Jim Weiers (R-Phoenix) announced a proposal to resolve the roughly $2 billion budget shortfall the state faces in fiscal year 2008-2009, the state Senate has followed suit, rolling out its own plan to cover the gap.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 14:56

As Governor's tone is upbeat on budget, Treasurer sees bigger crisis looming

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1049|title=State Treasurer Dean Martin|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=250|height=167]Today Governor Janet Napolitano touted the passage of an adjustment to the 2008 budget that will keep the state out of the red.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 04:01

'08 down, '09 to go

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

There are Democrats who don't like it, there are Republicans who don't like it; yet like it or not, the bill that was created through a strike-everything amendment in the Senate this afternoon, quickly passed, transmitted to the House and passed there too is the solution Arizonans of either party will have to live with.

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 04:01

'08 down, '09 to go

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

There are Democrats who don't like it, there are Republicans who don't like it; yet like it or not, the bill that was created through a strike-everything amendment in the Senate this afternoon, quickly passed, transmitted to the House and passed there too is the solution Arizonans of either party will have to live with.

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Thu, 04/17/2008 - 18:48

UPDATE: Budget breakthrough?

By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com Reporter

Today the Senate Appropriations Committee, by imposing a strike-everything amendment on a biofuels conversion bill and reconstituting it as an adjustment to the Fiscal Year 2007-2008 budget, is gearing up to bring the latest attempt to resolve the volatile and contentious issue of state finances for the current FY.

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