SAN ANTONIO – City leaders are discussing ‘what’s next’ after a billion-dollar contribution offer from the San Antonio Spurs. Half of that money is pledged towards a new, downtown arena. The other half will go to other developments in the area. Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has said she wants to nail down the best ‘Project
The Trump administration will release about $67 million to Colorado’s K-12 school districts after freezing the money for nearly a month, a move that comes just weeks before the 2025-26 academic year begins. The funding freeze was set to upend the upcoming school year as districts had already budgeted the federal money and hired employees.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — The home of the Columbus Blue Jackets could be getting a major ‘slap shot’ renovation in the coming years, and could partially be funded through unclaimed funds in the state’s biennial budget. Nationwide Arena turns 25 years old in September, and it’s never had a major renovation before. With work expected
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump’s tax and spending cuts package. In an extraordinarily rapid succession of events, Evers and Republican lawmakers unveiled a compromise
The scale of Germany’s ambitions to radically expand defense and infrastructure spending have raised thorny questions about how such spending can be reconciled with EU fiscal rules that Germany — previously a fiscal hawk — had long pushed for. Since March, however, Germany has led a concerted pushed for a loosening of those rules to
As the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation package continues to make its way through the Senate process, a review of its key provisions as compared to the House-passed version offers some helpful insights and exposes some glaring omissions. The Senate Finance bill follows the House-passed reconciliation bill in a number of ways. First, like the House
MADISON (WKOW) — Republicans on Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee have finalized education spending and tax cuts for the next two years. The committee voted to approve an additional $229 million for K-12 schools in the next state budget. That’s much less than the $3 billion Governor Tony Evers proposed. Democratic representative Tip McGuire says more
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks in March 2025 at a committee hearing. (Eric Kayne/Stars and Stripes) WASHINGTON — The Navy is proposing a $16 billion cut to shipbuilding in 2026 and does not intend to move forward with plans to purchase at least six new warships, the top
The Senate Banking Committee would shut off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding stream from the Federal Reserve to provide the vast majority of deficit reduction in reconciliation provisions released Friday. The panel posted an eight-page text that would restrict the CFPB from requesting a transfer from the Fed, according to a section-by-section explanation of
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Superintendent Dr. Adrienne Battle and her team presented their proposed $1.4 billion budget to Metro Council this week, marking a 13% increase from last year’s budget. But rising costs and shrinking resources are casting a shadow over the district’s financial outlook. One of the biggest concerns: health insurance. District leaders say