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• States Brace for a Second Round of Sequester Cuts
• Aug. 27, 2013
• States have been forced to gear up for a potential second round of across-the-board federal spending cuts after Congress left for its summer recess without a budget deal.

• Private Lobbyists Get Public Pensions in 20 States
• Aug. 27, 2013
• But several states have started to question whether these organizations should qualify for such benefits, since they are private entities in most respects.

• Illinois Lawmakers Reveal Outline for Pension Reform
• Aug. 27, 2013
• The group of lawmakers working on pension reform is focused on a new outline of ideas aimed at bringing the state's $100 billion pension monster to heel, but what's not in the plan may prove as interesting as what is in it.

• Defending Abortion Limits Can Cost States Millions
• Aug. 27, 2013
• Just last week, Idaho was ordered to cover the $376,000 in legal fees a woman there spent on suing the state after she was charged for an illegal abortion, according to the Associated Press. Combined with its past defense of abortion limits, the state has shelled out more than $1 million since 2000. And it’s far from alone.

• Colleges Toughening Up on Student Borrowing
• Aug. 26, 2013
• There's been a recent rush by many colleges to keep closer tabs on borrowers, even if the colleges' default rates are not at crisis levels.

• Feds Allow Ohio to Divert $60M to Demolish Vacant Homes
• Aug. 26, 2013
• The Treasury Department will let Ohio divert up to $60 million from a fund created to help homeowners stave off foreclosure, allowing the money to be used to demolish nearly 5,000 vacant homes instead.

• Federal Budget to Fight Wildfires is Depleted
• Aug. 23, 2013
• For the second straight year, the federal government has run through its budget for fighting wildfires amid a grueling, deadly season and will be forced to move $600 million from other funds, some of which help prevent fires.

• Obama Touts Tennessee's College Funding Rules
• Aug. 23, 2013
• President Barack Obama’s call on Thursday for states to follow Tennessee’s lead and award greater funding to colleges that show results with students pushed the state’s evolving education policies into the national spotlight once again.

• Obama to Propose Ranking, Funding Colleges by Affordability
• Aug. 22, 2013
• President Barack Obama on Thursday will unveil a sweeping new plan for rating colleges based in part on affordability, with the goal of eventually linking those ratings to federal financial aid awards.

• Taxes Off Minnesota Special Session's Agenda
• Aug. 22, 2013
• The Minnesota Legislature returns to work next month for a one-day special session that will deal with disaster relief — and nothing else.

• Nonprofits Balking at N.Y. Law on Disclosing Political Donors
• Aug. 21, 2013
• In an era of enormous, and often secretive, political spending, an ethics law championed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was billed as a major breakthrough: tax-exempt groups that lobby New York State government would finally be required to reveal where they got their money.

• Property Taxes Force N.J. Mayor to Sell His Home
• Aug. 21, 2013
• Mayor James "Sonny" McCullough has a great house to sell you: his.

• Governor to Free Pontiac, Mich., from Emergency Financial Management
• Aug. 20, 2013
• Gov. Rick Snyder announced Monday that the financial emergency in Pontiac was over and that the city no longer needed to be run by an emergency manager.

• Unions, Creditors Challenge Detroit's Right to Bankruptcy in Court
• Aug. 20, 2013
• Dozens of creditors, unions and retiree groups objected to Detroit’s eligibility to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, setting up a fierce legal battle today that will determine whether the city’s bankruptcy case can proceed.

• Scandalized Gov. McDonnell Touts Budget Surplus for Virginia
• Aug. 20, 2013
• Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announced Monday that the state finished its fiscal year in June with a significant budget surplus, a ray of good news overshadowed by an intensifying federal investigation into gifts and money provided to the governor and his family by a wealthy political supporter.