The headline reads, “Feeling flush: Virginia’s budget surplus doubles.” The article notes:
Virginia closed its fiscal 2010 budget with a $403.2 million budget surplus, Governor Bob McDonell said on Thursday. That’s even higher than the $220 million surplus he previously estimated.
Today, the Senate overcame a key procedural hurdle to move forward on a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill. The provision provides $10 billion in funds for teachers’ jobs and $16.1 billion for Medicaid. Without the additional funding, promised to states for months, local governments might have laid off More…
Though the Senate is moving to restore Medicaid funding to states and to hand them new money to keep teachers employed, Congress is granting far less than states initially requested — $10 billion in Medicaid funding, where states had hoped for $24 billion, for instance. Local budgets remain More…
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne today joins the ranks of those predicting that, a year from now, the health care debate will be a distant memory, lost in the raging political scuffle over who’s to blame for rampant unemployment.
While official Washington and much of the media focus
This is the third part in a three-part series on a new economic stimulus package. For the first part, see “Can Green Industry Save the Economy?”; for the second, see “Building Out of Economic Chaos.”
As Washington policymakers joust over the need for more federal spending to More…
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