Category archive for ‘Budget Round 2 Rumors’ rss

  • News Reports: Details of Kasich education plan emerge

    Not set for official introduction until tomorrow, a number of details have come to light about what to expect from Governor Kasich’s education legislation. We have a copy of the amendments related to reforming Cleveland schools and a first look at other reforms included in the bill.

    3/13/12 • (0)

  • Budget Preview: FIVE budget bills to be introduced?

    Budget watchers better invest in cloning technology, because the Kasich administration is set to introduce not one, not two but five new budget bills, all to be heard simultaneously, next week.

    3/10/12 • (0)

  • Budget Preview: education policy

    In another preview of the Governor’s upcoming budget bill, we learned yesterday the package will include key reforms sought by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, many of which resemble provisions in SB5. Do we also detect hints that Kasich has big plans for changing education in all of Ohio’s urban areas? He’s going to need Democratic support to give him cover, but will it be a bigger fight than Legislators want to take up in an election year?

    3/06/12 • (0)

  • Budget Preview: energy policy

    Governor Kasich has promised to include a number of policy initiatives in his upcoming budget legislation. Included among them are a number of revisions to Ohio’s energy policy. Budget Watch has obtained a document outlining the major pillars of the Governor’s energy policy plan.

    3/06/12 • (0)

  • Plain Dealer confirms: Kasich tax hike on frackers will be small

    It turns out we were far too generous assuming Kasich’s proposal to raise taxes on frackers would impose a fair tax rate on the extraction of oil and gas. His plan generates in five years what our estimates from yesterday said the state could raise in just one. Our new analysis shows that his fracking tax plan would raise enough revenue to give the average taxpayer a tax cut of $21 to $32.

    3/04/12 • (1)

  • Analysis: Kasich hints at meaningless income tax cut

    Governor Kasich’s team is floating the idea of raising tax on frackers and spending the money to cut the state’s income tax. Is that possible? We ran the numbers and offer the first glimpse at how much of a tax cut ordinary Ohioans could expect.

    3/03/12 • (3)

  • Mid-Biennium budget will include energy policy changes

    Kasich’s upcoming mid-biennial “review” of the two-year state budget, expected in early March, is largely a mystery to budget watchers. However, today, details began to emerge on some of the bill’s policy measures, including a number of changes on the energy front dealing with oil and gas drilling, the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard, and the use of compressed natural gas.

    2/29/12 • (1)

  • Issue 2′s failure and the state budget

    The failure of Issue 2 has been met with a shrug by local governments, who are already coping with declining budgets without it. What hasn’t been as widely reported is that the state budget is completely unaffected by the absence of SB5. Was that a tactical mistake on the Governor’s part?

    11/14/11 • (2)

  • Prison privatization comes up short – new $114 million budget hole?

    Today we learned that the Governor’s plan to sell 5 state prisons for $200 million has turned into a scheme to sell only one facility for $73 million, and other steps to save an additional $13 million. So, unless our math is wrong, that means there is a new $114 million hole in the state budget.

    9/01/11 • (1)

  • Kasich: more cuts could be coming

    Governor Kasich today said he’s worried about state revenue collections, but has ruled out any revenue options in order to keep the budget in balance.

    8/04/11 • (3)