By PHIL DRAKE
Montana Watchdog
HELENA – The fruits of North Dakota’s good economic fortunes could also be benefitting Montana. And North Dakota residents who find work in Montana could be helping their state coffers as well.
One of the many variables that may have added some oomph to Montana’s budget projections is an agreement on individual income taxes [...]

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By Stephen Groves — State budget officers meet to deal with deficits, Medicaid, unfunded pensions, loss of federal aid and the possibility of needing "a federal bailout every two years."

By ANDREW W. GRIFFIN
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
Posted: June 23, 2010
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sitting in an Oklahoma City restaurant, the self-described “libertarian-leaning conservative” Kevin Calvey, one of a number of Republicans running for the 5th congressional district being vacated by Mary Fallin, appears relaxed and engaged at the same time as he spoke to Oklahoma Watchdog on [...]