Christie Cuts With a Sharp Knife

The issues we’re following in Maine — the state budget (especially its education component), taxation issues, and local budgets — with all their accompanying discussions of cuts and program viability, and finger pointing, have their corresponding discussions in nearly every other state.  Some of these discussioins are louder and  more fractious than the hubub here. [...]

The Shape of Things to Come?

From Monday’s New York Post: [emphasis added]

Gov. Chris Christie is making good on his promise to get tough with New Jersey’s $2.2 billion budget gap — by taking aim at one of the drivers of the state’s out-of-control taxes: school budgets.

Under Christie’s budget, New Jersey’s 605 school districts will see their state aid [...]