National
Voters Okay State Income Tax Hikes For The Rich
Forbes.com (Forbes Magazine) - 11/10/2016
Trump Obamacare Repeal Threat Seen Pressuring Hospital Bonds
Bloomberg.com - 11/10/2016
U.S. voters say yes to big bond issues, mixed message on taxes
Reuters - 11/9/2016
Election Results for State Ballot Initiatives
Route Fifty - 11/9/2016
Voters Just Say No to Higher Cigarette Taxes in All But 1 State
Governing.com - 11/9/2016
In Cash-Strapped States, Voters Protect Transportation Funds
Governing.com - 11/9/2016
The Most Important and Interesting Ballot Measure Results
Governing.com - 11/9/2016
Trump’s Tax, Infrastructure Plans Jeopardize Exemption for Munis
Bond Buyer - 11/9/2016
Marijuana Legalized for Fun in 3 More States and Medicine in 4 Others
Governing.com - 11/9/2016
States Aggressively Court Foreign Companies
Pew Trusts - StateLine.org - 11/9/2016
Republicans Add to Their Dominance of State Legislatures
Governing.com - 11/9/2016
Obamacares future in critical condition with Trumps victory
Washington Post - 11/9/2016
Four states ok minimum wage hikes to at least $12
USA Today - 11/9/2016
Construction Has Key Stake as Results Roll In
Engineering News-Record - 11/9/2016
Legal weed: Tax jackpot or pipe dream?
CNN - 11/8/2016
States, counties, cities vote on $250 billion in transportation initiatives
USA Today - 11/7/2016
State and City Budget Blues: Pressures Keep Piling Up
ABC News - 11/7/2016
Budgets: What 12 State Schools Are Cutting, or Creating
New York Times - 11/6/2016
How Some States Make Effective Birth Control More Available
Pew Trusts - StateLine.org - 11/4/2016
October Jobs Report: Local Government Hiring Slows
Governing.com - 11/4/2016
The Week in Public Finance: NYC's $3 Billion in Giveaways, Weak Revenues and Jacksonville's Pension Fix
Governing.com - 11/4/2016
Shuttered State Prisons Spring Back to Life
Pew Trusts - StateLine.org - 11/3/2016
Alabama
Voters approve at least 12 of 14 amendments on statewide ballot
AL.com - 11/9/2016
Voters support Alabama Amendment 2 protecting state park revenue
Huntsville Times - 11/8/2016
Alabama's school finance formula outdated, unfair, experts say
Birmingham News - 11/7/2016
Medicaid chief urges lawmakers to stick with managed care plan
Birmingham News - 11/3/2016
Alaska
Alaskans approve voter registration measure, reject college loan plan
Fairbanks News-Miner - 11/9/2016
Arizona
Arizona voters reject Proposition 205 on night of sweeping change for marijuana
Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix - 11/9/2016
Arkansas
Governor outlines proposed budget, wants $50 million tax cut
Arkansas News.com - 11/10/2016
Hutchinson seeks $3 million to launch medical-marijuana program
Arkansas News.com - 11/10/2016
Voters OK medical marijuana, other ballot issues
Arkansas News.com - 11/10/2016
Arkansas revenues up from last year, above forecast in October
Arkansas News.com - 11/3/2016
California
California voters reject prescription drug pricing measure
Sacramento Bee - 11/9/2016
Voters approve $9 billion for school construction
Sacramento Bee - 11/9/2016
California voters legalize pot and expand prison parole but appear to refuse death penalty repeal
San Diego Union-Tribune - 11/9/2016
California measure on state mega-projects trailing slightly
Sacramento Bee - 11/9/2016
California governor's initiative will allow earlier paroles
Sacramento Bee - 11/9/2016
Voters approve Proposition 55, which extends higher income tax rates for the wealthiest Californians
Los Angeles Times - 11/8/2016
Colorado
ColoradoCare measure Amendment 69 defeated soundly
Denver Post - 11/9/2016
Connecticut
Half of Connecticut agencies submit budget proposals
New Haven Register - 11/5/2016
State Panel Weighs In On Hartford's Financial Woes
Hartford Courant - 11/5/2016
Delaware
Reworking, repealing Obamacare high on Trump agenda
Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online) - 11/10/2016
Florida
Federal court favors Seminoles in gambling lawsuit
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com - 11/9/2016
Medical marijuana amendment approved
Miami Herald - 11/9/2016
State seeks to preserve its system for low-income patients
Herald Tribune.com - 11/8/2016
Florida looks for ways to make college affordable
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com - 11/4/2016
Florida pushes universities to better serve community college students
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com - 11/3/2016
Georgia
State school chief: Help schools that were eligible for state takeover
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 11/10/2016
Georgias Amendment 4 would formalize how fireworks tax is spent
Athens Banner-Herald - 11/6/2016
Idaho
Medicaid expansion in Idaho likely dead with Trump win
Twin Falls Times-News - 11/10/2016
Illinois
Amendment to put state road money in 'lock box' approved by voters
Illinois Daily Herald - 11/10/2016
Illinois budget impasse expected to continue as Rauner, Madigan dig in after bruising election
Chicago Tribune - 11/9/2016
Iowa
Tax cuts, legal fireworks likely from GOP-led Iowa Legislature
Des Moines Register - 11/9/2016
Iowa law officers seek pay increase
Quad-City Times - 11/8/2016
State tax collections lagging below estimate
Muscatine Journal - 11/4/2016
Kansas
Kansas prepares for new, more pessimistic fiscal forecast
Lawrence Journal-World - 11/10/2016
Key rulings loom for Kansas Supreme Court after voters reaffirm all justices
Topeka Capital-Journal - 11/9/2016
Kentucky
Bevin and Hoover: GOP takeover of state House will bring tax reform
Lexington Herald-Leader - 11/10/2016
Maine
Maine votes to hike tax on high earners to boost school aid
Bangor Daily News - 11/9/2016
Maine voters poised to put new laws on the books, but margins are narrow
Central Maine - 11/8/2016
Many of Maine's 1 percent will likely seek loopholes if voters pass school tax, economists say
Central Maine - 11/5/2016
UMaine System records enrollment increase for the first time since 2003
Central Maine - 11/4/2016
Maryland
Trump could change health insurance programs that affect hundreds of thousands of Marylanders
Baltimore Sun - 11/9/2016
State officials present 2017 transportation priorities
Baltimore Sun - 11/7/2016
Maryland casino revenue inches upward
Baltimore Sun - 11/4/2016
Massachusetts
Taxes, implementation still to be determined as pot becomes legal
Boston Herald - 11/10/2016
Massachusetts seen insulated from a Trump repeal of Obamacare
Boston Globe and Boston.com - 11/9/2016
After charter school defeat, what's next for Massachusetts education reform?
Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican - 11/9/2016
Question 1, authorizing second slots parlor in Massachusetts, fails
Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican - 11/8/2016
Feds approve $52.5B Medicaid waiver for Massachusetts
Boston Herald - 11/4/2016
Michigan
Michigan Senate expected to take up energy bills today
Detroit Free Press - 11/10/2016
Minnesota
Mark Dayton, Republicans on collision course after GOP victory
St. Paul Pioneer Press - Twin Cities.com - 11/9/2016
MNsure enrollment keeps growing
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 11/7/2016
Missouri
Missouri cigarette taxes fail, voters support campaign contribution limits and voter IDrequirements
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 11/9/2016
Missouri tax to support state parks, amendment to limit campaign contributions getting support in early results
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 11/8/2016
Lackluster revenue figures could greet Missouri's next governor
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 11/3/2016
Montana
Republicans seek concessions from Bullock after election win
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - 11/10/2016
Two of four ballots winning in early voting
Great Falls Tribune - 11/8/2016
Nebraska
Nebraska legislative results could be recipe for gridlock
Lincoln Journal Star - 11/10/2016
NU freezes hiring, prepares for budget cuts
Lincoln Journal Star - 11/8/2016
Ricketts begins covering all travel costs for state troopers who accompany him on out-of-state trips, including Cubs games
Omaha World-Herald - 11/5/2016
Legislature needs access to state tax data, other info, lawmaker says
Lincoln Journal Star - 11/5/2016
Nevada
Recreational marijuana use OK'd by Nevada voters
Las Vegas Sun - 11/9/2016
Blue Wave hands Democrats reins of Nevada Legislature
Las Vegas Review-Journal - 11/9/2016
State board OKs $900 million in bonds for Project Neon
Las Vegas Sun - 11/8/2016
Nevada public pension costs cut deep into education funding, study says
Las Vegas Review-Journal - 11/7/2016
New Hampshire
NH's infrastructure focus of economic summit
Manchester Union Leader - 11/10/2016
NH's new governor is facing a crowded agenda
Manchester Union Leader - 11/8/2016
Prescription drugs driving health care costs in NH
Manchester Union Leader - 11/5/2016
New Jersey
State board approves Atlantic City takeover
Press of Atlantic City - 11/10/2016
New Jersey gas tax will be dedicated to transportation after vote
Press of Atlantic City - 11/9/2016
N.J. voters overwhelmingly reject North Jersey casino proposal
NJ.com - 11/8/2016
North Dakota
Measure approved to allow lawmakers to tap state's foundation aid stabilization fund
Bismarck Tribune - 11/9/2016
Voters turn down tobacco tax increase
Bismarck Tribune - 11/9/2016
Measure momentum: 4 proposals pass, 1 fails
Bismarck Tribune - 11/9/2016
Revenue group sets numbers for budget forecast
Bismarck Tribune - 11/4/2016
Panel cautious on N.D. oil outlook as new revenue forecast prepared
INFORUM-Fargo - 11/3/2016
Ohio
Ohio voters approve of 77 percent of tax requests for schools across state
Columbus Dispatch - 11/9/2016
New law would shrink size of state government
Dayton Daily News - 11/9/2016
Ohio casinos bring in less during October; racinos grow
Dayton Daily News - 11/8/2016
Today's Ohio revenue shortfall is tomorrow's tight budget
Columbus Dispatch - 11/4/2016
Obama overtime-pay rule prompts changes, requires loans, as Ohio universities adapt
Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com - 11/4/2016
Oklahoma
State Question 779's defeat puts teacher pay back to Oklahoma lawmakers
NewsOK.com - 11/10/2016
Oil and gas revenue up for first time in almost two years
NewsOK.com - 11/9/2016
Oregon
Post Measure 97: Oregon university presidents seek 'minimum' increase of $100M for higher ed
Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com - 11/9/2016
Oregon voters approve array of measures; tax measure fails
Corvallis Gazette-Times - 11/9/2016
Oregon corporate tax Measure 97 defeated
Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com - 11/9/2016
Pennsylvania
Collecting $49 million in unpaid turnpike tolls wont be easy
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 11/6/2016
As opioid epidemic rates, advocates fear cuts to treatment programs
Philly.com - 11/5/2016
Rhode Island
Concern in R.I. about federal education spending in Trump administration
Providence Journal - 11/9/2016
R.I. bond issues: Voters OK borrowing a total of $227.5M
Providence Journal - 11/8/2016
Healthsource RI failing to attract small businesses
Providence Journal - 11/4/2016
South Carolina
S.C. cuts unemployment insurance tax in 2017, citing improving labor market
Charleston Post & Courier - 11/7/2016
Gov. Nikki Haley, AG Alan Wilson call on lawmakers to consolidate crime victim services
Charleston Post & Courier - 11/3/2016
South Dakota
New state panel sets steps for teacher-salary reviews
Capital Journal (Pierre) - 11/7/2016
Public pension system retirees might see colas at 0.5 percent
Capital Journal (Pierre) - 11/4/2016
Tennessee
Tennessee officials hint at another year of low tuition hikes
Nashville Tennessean - 11/8/2016
Tennessee education department seeks funding for BEP, literacy efforts
Nashville Tennessean - 11/8/2016
Tennessee prison chief asks for $4 million to treat hepatitis C
Nashville Tennessean - 11/8/2016
Texas
UT regents expected to authorize $392 million in construction projects
Austin American-Statesman - 11/8/2016
Texas urged to end foster care group homes, limit caseworker workloads
Austin American-Statesman - 11/5/2016
Vermont
Scott sails into governor's seat
Burlington Free Press - 11/9/2016
Virginia
Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne directs state to stop work on Virginia Beach light rail project
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com - 11/9/2016
Virginia awards contract for I-66 under new approach that saves state $2.5 billion
Richmond.com - 11/4/2016
West Virginia
WV school closures, constructions planned; A-F grades to be released next week
Charleston Daily Mail - 11/9/2016
Justice optimistic on transition to WV Governors Office
Charleston Daily Mail - 11/9/2016
Majority of WV public college grads leave state for work
Charleston Daily Mail - 11/5/2016
Wyoming
Wyoming voters approve of investing more state tax dollars
Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle - 11/10/2016
Voters approve investment amendment to Wyoming Constitution
Casper Star-Tribune - 11/9/2016