Posts Tagged: Budget Bites

Budget Bites: House plan derails transit, Senate proposes lesser cuts

Posted April 13th, 2011 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Energy, Funding for the Environment, Health, Legislature, State Budget, Transit and Transportation.

[Editor’s note: In an effort to help inform our members about state and federal budget issues, Minnesota Environmental Partnership is working with the Minnesota Budget Project to cross-post updates about… Read more »

Budget Bites: House and Senate lay out an all cuts strategy for balancing the budget

Posted March 10th, 2011 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Funding for the Environment, Legislature, State Budget.

On Thursday, the House and Senate released their budget “targets” for resolving the state’s $5.0 billion budget deficit for FY 2012-13. The targets set the amount each finance committee must cut (or increase) within their area of the budget.