September revenue numbers are in…and they are bad. The general fund was undercollected by $78.1 million. Sales tax collections and business and excise taxes were not good. This fiscal year so far, we’re 128 million dollars in the hole.
Archive for October, 2008
Wow, That’s Bad
October 9, 2008
College Cuts Coming
October 9, 2008
With the state asking departments to look at making a three percent reduction in their ‘08-09 budgets, I knew it was only a matter of time before the ax would come swinging towards public universities. After all, a person who worked with state budgets in Missouri once told me that higher education was the [...]
A Spin in the Spin Zone
October 8, 2008
Well, all of my ideas for blogging in the spin room when I actually got there and realized just how much work I needed to do for the TV part of my job. It’s the morning after, and I am still pumped after the debate. I wanted to go over my time in the debate [...]
Tracking the Candidates…
October 7, 2008
…Is not as exciting as it sounds.
Senator John McCain is the only candidate in town to follow right now, and it he is doing nothing exciting. He arrived in Nashville at around 6:30 this evening, shook a few hands and was whisked away to a private pre-debate meeting at the Convention Center. After that, [...]
The Spin Zone
October 2, 2008
All of the preparation for this debate has me thinking about one of my very first assignments as a young student journalist. This is actually not the first presidential debate I have covered. Eight years ago, I was a college student at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I had just gotten a job working at [...]
