Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.

By this time the Labor government was in deep crisis, with the some of the state's financial institutions on the brink of insolvency, the budget deficit unsustainably high and growing and the Labor Party deeply divided on how to respond to the situation.

Dukakis won in part by promising to be a ' reformer ' and pledging not to increase the state's sales tax to balance the state budget.

Voters cited disapproval of the state's record $ 34. 6 billion budget shortfall, growing unemployment and dubious campaign contributor connections.

Restoring the licensing fees to pre tax cut levels to close the budget gap and stabilize the state's credit rating became unpopular.

The Constitutional Budget reserve is run similar to the Permanent Fund, but money from it can be withdrawn to pay for the state's annual budget, unlike the Permanent Fund.

In the late 1990s, when the State of California had a budget crisis due to a disagreement between the governor and the legislature, the state treasurer was forced to issue warrants paying 18 % interest in lieu of being able to pay the state's bills with real money.

The new service, and especially its comptroller, Joseph Brennan were initially most concerned with balancing the state's budget and avoiding long-term in-debtedness The Free State printed its own notes ( the punt ), and minted its own coins but their value remained tied to British sterling currency until the 1970s.

He cut health care costs in an attempt to balance the budget, and borrowed funds from the state's K-12 education and low income programs.

Pawlenty's major campaign stances included: a pledge not to raise taxes to balance the state's budget deficit ( while allowing for increases in license and user fees ); that visa expiration dates be required to be printed on driver's licenses ; that women seeking an abortion be required to wait at least 24 hours ; enactment of a concealed carry gun law ; and reform of the state's education requirements.

Pawlenty was elected in 2002 on a platform of balancing the state's budget without raising taxes.

His final budget ( 2010 – 2011 ) was the state's first two-year period since 1960 in which net government expenditures decreased.

In the state's 2007-2008 budget, an additional A $ 4. 9 million ( 2007 ) was allocated to the control and eradication program.

Chandler used the savings realized from his reorganization of government to eliminate the state's budget deficit and pay off most of the state's debt.

He cut the popular Youth Authority, initiated by Wetherby to unify the state's children's welfare programs, but the savings were not enough to balance the budget.

The proposal called for spending in excess of $ 46 million more than officials estimated would be brought into the state's coffers over the two-year budget.

Laura Sullivan of National Public Radio said that the costs of housing prisoners " barely registered " in the state's budget.

Inheriting the state's worst economy since the Great Depression, Wilson insisted on strict budget discipline and sought to rehabilitate the state's environment for investment and new job creation.

He cut the proposed budget for the state's Council on Higher Education by 40 percent.

Because of the considerable political clout of the Golden Triangle ( Lexington, Louisville and Covington ), the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University were spared the more severe budget cuts imposed on the state's regional universities.

Situated on a main campus, UGA has a workforce of more than 9, 800, an annual budget of about $ 1 billion, and a physical plant valued at some $ 500 million, making it one of the largest employers in Georgia and a major contributor to the state's economic and cultural vitality.

Under the 2008 Democratic Party selection rules, adopted in 2006, delegates are selected under proportional representation, which requires a candidate have a minimum of 15 % of a state's popular vote to receive delegates.

For example, first degree murder requires that the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant acted with premeditation, deliberation and the specific intent to kill-all three are necessary elements of the state's case.

The Fundamental Law of Vatican City State requires that appointees to the state's legislative body, the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, be cardinals.

As Controller, Westly opposed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to change Proposition 98, which requires a certain amount of the state's budget to go towards funding public education and community colleges, and in 2005, he created a tax amnesty plan that allowed individuals and corporations who owed back taxes to prevent facing criminal charges and increased penalties if they would immediately pay their back taxes.

The issue was resolved in April 2006, when the Louisiana State Legislature passed a bill ( House Bill 833 / Act 92 ) which requires three drops of blood to be depicted on the pelican used in both the state's flag and seal.

In some states, such as Republic of Ireland, this is usually a referendum as any change to that state's constitution requires one.

About $ 50 million of the state's portion goes to the purchase of 2, 840 acres ( 11. 5 km² ) of undeveloped university land, part of the Rosemount Research Center in Dakota County, over 25 years by the state of Minnesota who will assume responsibility for risks if the site requires environmental cleanup.

The issue was resolved in April 2006, when the Louisiana State Legislature passed a bill ( House Bill 833 / Act 92 ) which requires three drops of blood to be depicted on the pelican used in both the state's flag and seal.

Congress passed a fourth Reconstruction Act ( again over a veto ) to provide for ratification of each state's constitution by a majority of those voting ( rather than requiring the vote to be all those registered ).

However, legislating for alterations to the Act is a complex process, since the act is a common denominator in the shared succession of all the Commonwealth realms and the Statute of Westminster 1931 acknowledges by established convention that any changes to the rules of succession may be made only with the agreement of all of the states involved, with concurrent amendments to be made by each state's parliament or parliaments.

The settlement compensated the Natives for the collaborative use of their lands and opened the way for all Alaskans to profit from oil, one of the state's largest natural resources.

* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.

Also, the sale of liquor is not allowed at all in nearly half of the state's counties.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

In the Republic of Ireland, UPC Ireland is by far the largest cable and MMDS operator, owning all of the state's MMDS licenses and almost all of the state's cable TV operators.

* 1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal. 3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

There are three ways a case can be heard in the Supreme Court: ( 1 ) filing directly in the Supreme Court ; ( 2 ) filing in a lower federal court, such as a district court, and appealing all the way up to the Supreme Court ; ( 3 ) filing in a state court, appealing all the way up through the state's highest courts, and then appealing to the Supreme Court on an issue of federal law.

Regulation of parties may run from a crackdown on or repression of all opposition parties, a norm for authoritarian governments, to the repression of certain parties which hold or promote ideals which run counter to the general ideology of the state's incumbents ( or possess membership by-laws which are legally unenforceable ).

Generally, the ticket that wins the most votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes and thus has its slate of electors chosen to vote in the Electoral College.

If the state accepts them ( or fails to act at all ), both the reserving state and the accepting state are relieved of the reserved legal obligation as concerns their legal obligations to each other ( accepting the reservation does not change the accepting state's legal obligations as concerns other parties to the treaty ).

They point out that all of the state's representatives in Congress, all of its Supreme Court, 90 % of its legislature and 80 % of its state and federal judges belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

" Since there are at present no such untaxed Native Americans ( Indians ), all persons inhabiting a state — whether citizens or not — count towards the population of that state in determining the state's congressional apportionment.

It counts all residents for apportionment, overriding Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which counted only three-fifths of each state's slave population.

Generally, the ticket that wins the most votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes and thus has its slate of electors chosen to vote in the Electoral College.

* February 18 – The California Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences to life in prison.

Since New York's financial industry provides almost one-fourth of all income produced in the city, and accounts for 10 % of the city's tax revenues and 20 % of the state's, the downturn has had huge repercussions for government treasuries.

By 1860 blacks ( nearly all slaves ) comprised 45 percent of the state's 964, 201 people.