COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s biennial state budget has evolved from a simple funding mechanism into a vehicle for significant policy changes, often with minimal public debate. These are the 5 takeaways ...

Pennsylvania finally has a 2025-26 state budget — a $50.1 billion behemoth approved Nov. 12, the Legislature having missed the constitutionally mandated budget-preparation deadline of June 30 by ...

New business formations reached record pace in North Carolina in the second half of 2025. Elaine Marshall says her team needs ...

Senate and House Democrats, including House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, D-Chatham, held a press conference Wednesday to criticize legislative Republicans for not passing a revised budget. This ...

The Michigan Capitol building in Lansing. UPDATE: The Michigan Court of Claims has postponed this hearing until September 16, 2025. A challenge to a common, controversial, and expensive part of the ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer brought this year's prolonged state budget process to an end, signing into law spending plans for state government and education through Sept. 30, 2026, the first she brokered ...

BEAR CREEK TWP. — The state-budget impasse had left a local charter school on the precipice of shutdown — and while that immediate crisis has now passed, the four-month stalemate did take underlying ...

Kentucky lawmakers must craft the next two-year budget during the 2026 legislative session, taking into account major federal ...