A House committee may vote this week to spend more than $4 billion of the state’s Rainy Day Fund to help close the state’s current budget gap. As the fight heats up over whether to draw from the $9.4 billion fund, Matt Largey of KUT News takes a look at where all that money came from anyway.
Mar 7, 2011 5:00 am
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Criminal Justice
State Would Require Jails to Pay for Inspections
To keep critical jail inspections going even as they cut funding to the agency that provides them, lawmakers are proposing that the counties pay for them.
Posted inState Government
Up and Running
Legislative sessions lag along and then, suddenly, seem to catch traction and start. Plenty of people have been busy, but now, with 12 weeks left in the regular session, lots of people are getting busy.
