Mary Peck
Budgets In Brief - February 6 2017

Indian Gaming Boosting OK Economy Native American tribes have paid the state of OKLAHOMA over $1 billion in exclusivity fees since 2006, according to a report from the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association. The report also indicated that tribal gaming...

Mary Peck
TX Gov. Blocks Funding to ‘Sanctuary City’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) blocked $1.5 million in state funding for courts, crime victim services and other programs in Austin, the state’s most liberal city, after the city’s sheriff, Sally Hernandez, a Democrat, announced that jails there...

Mary Peck
Some States Better Positioned than Others for Fiscal Downturn

Twenty-five states ended the 2016 fiscal year with revenue collections that were below projections, and nearly that many were already forecasting shortfalls for the current fiscal year only months after it had begun, according to the National Association...

Mary Peck
States Not Budgeting For Repeal Of Obamacare

Last month the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution allowing for the repeal of parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And on his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing for the dismantling...

Mary Peck
Politics In Brief - February 6 2017

AR Revives Voter ID Law ARKANSAS’ Republican-controlled House approved a voter ID bill last week ( HB 1047 ) that is nearly identical to a voter ID law unanimously struck down by the state’s Supreme Court in 2014. Four of the justices in...