Dave Heineman News

State senators were given a huge challenge, to cut $335 million from the budget.

The Governor is not issuing any vetoes and is signing into law a group of budget bills being presented to him by the state legislature.

Date: November 23, 2009 Mayor Chris Beutler said today the actions of the State Legislature in the recent special session will have an impact on City services to residents.

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved a massive package of spending cuts to close a $334 million budget gap caused by lower-than-expected state revenue.

Four Nebraska schools districts have been recognized by Gov. Dave Heineman for doing a good job of involving parents in their children's educations.

Nebraska lawmakers headed home Friday after closing a $334 million budget gap, leaving state officials to figure out which jobs, expenses and projects will have to go.

A bill designed to cut an anticipated $335 million doolar shortfall has been signed into law by Governor Dave Heineman.

Health officials based in say a Lincoln County man in his 30's who didn't have a chronic underlying health condition has died.

Not only is Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman not the highest paid state employee, he's not even the top earner in his own office.

Members of the Appropriations Committee say they will study the impact of state budget cuts on state agenices once they are implemented.

If the government wants to create jobs, it should pump money into metropolitan areas rather than sending it to the countryside, Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle said Tuesday.

Gov. Dave Heineman said he is not out to find the best reading program in the state, just those that show the best results.

No tax increases is the governor's promise during this special session, one he says needs to be kept to help keep young professionals in Nebraska.

After a final bit of finagling, the budget writers in the Legislature finished their plan Friday for getting the state out of a $334 million budget hole.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced on Friday a series of spending cuts and other steps to offset a continuing multimillion-dollar dive in state revenues.

The long recession is cutting more money from state revenues and is expected to force spending cuts of nearly $120 million from South Carolina schools, colleges and prisons.

Nebraska farmers can put away their pitchforks and lower their torches. The Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to leave the state's agricultural checkoff funds untouched.

Pieces of a budget-balancing solution started taking shape Tuesday in the Nebraska Legislature.

At least one state senator thinks that furloughing state employees would be a better route to cutting the state budget than laying off those workers.

A group of economists and policy-makers slashed Kansas tax collection estimates Thursday by $235 million, reflecting signs of continued weakness in the state economy.