Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Under the state constitution, the Florida Legislature has only one specific job: Every year, it must write a balanced budget. It’s ...

Something is seriously amiss in Cuyahoga County’s budget management. The latest sign was last week’s abrupt transfer of two Sheriff’s Department fiscal officers out of the department after they ...

Budget-writing season has been especially difficult this year in many Indiana cities, towns and counties as elected officials grapple with the effects of a new law that overhauled the tax systems that ...

This is budget-writing time for many state legislatures around the United States, and this year almost every state is planning significant cuts to healthcare programs. Medicaid reimbursement is always ...

Idaho’s budget-writing committee just decided the first big question of the legislative session: how much tax revenue can be spent in 2027? The answer: $5.8 billion, $152.5 million more than Governor ...

Birmingham Mayor William Bell has a plan to make the city's annual budget-writing process work much more smoothly this year, and that plan is no big secret. Bell is going to make sure his ...

Under the state constitution, the Florida Legislature has only one specific job: Every year, it must write a balanced budget. It’s never easy, especially if lawmakers are sincerely trying to be fair.