Posts Tagged ‘Budget’

Serious legislative work on Iowa’s next budget will now commence in earnest as lawmakers received budget targets this week. With the session now near the halfway point, the remaining weeks will become vitally important to pocketbooks of every taxpayer in this Iowa. Before the final budget is voted on by both the Iowa Senate and Iowa ... Full story

This week the Legislature advanced Senate File 2088, the state government reorganization bill. As the state faces a budget gap of more than one billion dollars, lawmakers are looking at ways to trim the massive budget through the restructuring of some state government operations. Unfortunately, the state government reorganization bill Senate File 2088, only goes ... Full story

A new TIR/Concordia Group poll shows the political environment in Iowa has improved for Republicans in the last six months. The poll was commissioned by TheIowaRepublican.com in conjunction with Concordia Group LLC, an Iowa based public affairs company. Voter Consumer Research, a highly respected polling firm based in Washington D.C., conducted the poll ... Full story

Every year, the legislature and the Governor must approve a balanced budget by the end of the legislative session. This process is always a tedious and difficult one, and this year, they only have 80 days to do it. Some years the process is easier than others. In fiscal year 2008, ... Full story

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts filed a bill yesterday in the Iowa House of Representatives that calls for amending the Iowa Constitution to limit state government spending. The constitutional amendment would limit state spending to 99% of projected revenue. Over the past several months of his gubernatorial campaign, Roberts has pledged to work toward amending the ... Full story

Culver Administration: Just like every other year, the Governor’s budget recommendation is balanced. True, but last year’s budget was supposedly balanced, too. Governor Culver was forced to make two rounds of cuts to actually balance the budget. One of the cuts was a reckless 10% across-the-board cut that will force local government ... Full story

Governor Chet Culver recently stated that the primary function of state government is to “incarcerate, educate, and medicate.” While Culver’s new slogan isn’t going to find its way on the billboards welcoming travelers to Iowa, it does provide Iowans with a glimpse of what the Governor believes are priorities for ... Full story

Governor Culver gave labor unions until Friday November, 6th (That’s Today) to renegotiate. Its 6:22 p.m. Governor, I’m sure there are a lot of state workers wondering if you were successful in negotiating with the unions so they can keep their jobs. Full story

The Des Moines Register is already commending Governor Chet Culver for putting a hold on the staff reductions for the Departments of Corrections and Public Safety. Governor Culver has asked AFSCME Council 61, the union that represents the largest share of state workers, to reopen their contracts and agree to pay reductions in ... Full story

Earlier this spring when Terry Rich was appointed by Governor Chet Culver to serve as the new CEO of the Iowa Lottery, he stated that his goal was to enhance socially acceptable lottery products like Powerball and scratch tickets. While Mr. Rich might have had the best of intentions, the reality of ... Full story