Doyle Seeks Land Funds: Proposed Increase in State Program Would Cost $1.6 Billion in Next 10 Years
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 15--Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to provide more funding for a state land purchase program will heap an estimated $1.6 billion in new costs on taxpayers in the next 10 years of the initiative.
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An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to inject $1 billion into medical research and biotechnology is a complex plan whose details have yet to be worked out, and it depends on the Legislature's willingness to fund it over a decade. But his strategy could also be more flexible and cost effective than competing plans in California and other states, according to policy ...
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The move marks a growing trend in public-private efforts in western US toward land conservation.
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The state and federal governments should buy more land, and do so quickly, in order to restore the Everglades before the property becomes developed or too expensive in coming years, according to a new report.
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By JIM SKEEN\\ Staff Writer  LANCASTER -- Lancaster homeowners could be asked to finance millions of dollars for additional work in a proposed expansion of the sewage treatment plant.
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Four lucky states were slated to share billions in potential royalties courtesy of an offshore drilling expansion signed into law last year, money that could help reverse decades of environmental damage from coastal industry. But as budget planning gets under way, the states are beginning to realize that Congress gave them far more freedom in spending the windfall than the political rhetoric in Washington suggested.
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SOMERVILLE -- As many as 100,000 Massachusetts homeowners would receive up to $870 a year in tax relief under a plan unveiled by Governor Deval Patrick yesterday that relies on the state's corporate community to foot the bill.
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By Danielle Sottosanti, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 7--A proposed large increase in Oro Valley's water-connection fees met with opposition from development and building representatives at a public hearing Wednesday night.
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PROVO -- For the first time in five years, fees will increase for some camping grounds in the Uinta National Forest.
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The proposal is expected to raise $10 billion over the next five years in an effort to eliminate the deficit by 2012.
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By Olson, Scott  State officials have added another arrow to their quiver of economic-development incentives meant to attract companies to Indiana.  A new pilot program, known as Shovel Ready, certifies land that can be rapidly developed.
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 10--Last year's failed plan by the Bush administration to sell more  than 7,000 acres of national forest land in Georgia and Tennessee is back --  penciled into the president's proposed 2008 budget.   Under the plan, the U.S.
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Six weeks after Governor Deval L. Patrick captured national attention with a proposal to spend $1 billion on biomedical research, one sticky question still hangs over the plan: Who will actually get the money?
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President Bushâs request increased the amount of the proposed spending by $46 billion over the amount already requested this year.
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Montgomery County ponders investment needed to expand health care initiative.
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The New York governor's budget would increase spending by 6.3 percent, allowing him to pay for promised property tax cuts and new education aid.