<em>Editor’s Note: At $16.6 billion, Oklahoma government spending is at an all-time high. At $26 billion, Oklahoma’s debt load is sta...

It has been reported that the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department will close seven state parks this year on August 15. This decis...

Thanks to the hard work and income generation of productive Oklahoma citizens, the Oklahoma Tax Commission reports that the state will h...

While the governor and legislature have been strongly focused on state budget deficits, a recent SoonerPoll found that essentially half ...

“Having promised to govern as a consistent conservative,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott “appears to be doing just that,” reports Peter Roff, a...

The legislature has begun agency performance-review hearings, where appropriation subcommittees review agency budget requests and agency...

In a commentary which appeared last week in The City Sentinel, (CapitolBeatOK reported on it here), state Sen. Andrew Rice (D-O...

According to our friends at the Oklahoma Policy Institute, Oklahoma “will face prolonged constraints on the state budget.” They say ...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Republican Gov.-elect Sam Brownback named two legislators to his Cabinet on Tuesday and chose a consultant for th...

Let’s face it: The financial picture stinks for local and state governments, who are not only continuing to experience shortfalls in rev...

Oklahoma’s fiscal shape could worsen next year when short-term budget enhancements disappear, experts told Oklahoma’s business community...

Oklahoma's legislative leaders are fretting, understandably, about what state government will look like once they get finished writing t...

Legislative leaders and the governor are wrestling to find the best approach to deal with a budget crisis that has state government in a...

On December 28, 2009, Amy Merrick of The Wall Street Journal reported ("Pawlenty Pushes Caps on Spending") that Minnesota Gov. ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- One group is asking state lawmakers to sign a no-tax pledge. The other group says don’t rule out tax increases and ...

Brandon Dutcher discusses the need for state budget cuts.

The American states, including Oklahoma, have a problem. The current budget and appropriations crises for state and local governments ar...

I have friends who suffer from drug or alcohol addiction and others who, when untreated, manifest dreadful misbehavior rooted in mental ...

Recent reforms in government purchasing have already resulted in more than $1.2 million in savings and additional reforms could result i...

State government has kept billions of dollars out of the Kansas economy, accumulating enormous unencumbered cash balances across 1,658 s...