After previously anticipating a $14.6 million deficit for next year's Santa Barbara general fund budget, the city is now ...

House Finance Committee Chairman Vernon Criss explained the committee’s primary amendment to Senate Bill 250, the budget bill, Wednesday afternoon in the House of Delegates. (Photo by Steven Allen ...

The rules vary widely from state to state, and they do little to prevent policymakers from pushing costs into the future unsustainably. A couple of states are trying to take a longer-term view.

Some lawmakers want to adopt a new amendment to force Congress to come up with balanced budgets to keep the country’s ballooning deficit from continuing to spiral out of control and risk a debt crisis ...

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Summit County government staff have been working since summer to reduce a projected $7.5 million general fund deficit in the county’s 2026 budget. At a Dec. 9 meeting, the Summit Board of County ...