Stateline Opinion Roundup

Is anticonsumer insurance law just designed to damage Obamacare?

Keep college affordable

A sign of the times?

Tax impacts

Minnesota must repair a tax mistake

Budget crunch time invites legislative sleight of hand

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The Amp would transform local transportation

Smell test

California budget has many holes to fill in 10 days

Helping eastern Montana right thing to do

A special session? Who saw that coming?

Budget hearings: Where are the people?

Expanding Medicaid: good for economy, good for the uninsured

Hey, Gov. Christie: Your special election will cost taxpayers $25 million

Test waters on higher-ed funds

State budget a mixed bag

Activist, reckless session

Medicaid expansion in hands of seven GOP lawmakers

Why Minnesota teachers union opposes Teach for America

FAIR: Nixon eviscerates GOP arguments for 'ill-conceived' tax cut bill

Jay Nixon boldly rejects destructive Missouri tax bill

Montana must invest in quality early childhood services

Montana veterans lose in education grant snafu

Expanding Medicaid: A lose-lose proposition

Wide range seen in legislative session grading

Five takeaways about Pennsylvania's public pension woes

Legislature opens the door to more pay hike discussions

Wisconsin Center responds to lawmakers’ early-morning eviction vote

Wisconsin lawmakers make poor budget choices - again

Another beating for the taxpayer

Jefferson County emerges from sewer of bankruptcy

Gas taxes: Bill gives voters final say on road funding

State House Dems could be budget players -- if they're smart enough to recognize it

Texas goes Sacramento

Does Pebble have plan? Depends on who's asking

Tax-boost plan undermines Stockton's bankruptcy case

Kansas budget reflects Legislature’s dysfunction

Your $8.7 billion investment

Gov. Dayton's misguided Legacy funds veto

Let veto sound call to reconstruct tax cut

Redefining Nevada

A test case for Republican lower-taxes rhetoric

Pa. needs pension reform

Lawmakers set to spend $400k on themselves in June

Jerry Brown 2.0 gets his way on state budget

Let Nixon's veto be a call to rethink tax-cut bills

Change Scaffold Law and reduce taxpayer costs

No, New York beats California in sprint to last place

Paying people in Idaho

A better bag tax

The budget balancing act

Politics uncalled for as wildfires burn in Colorado

Malloy should reject budget and revise cap

Irrational GOP threatens Medicaid expansion

Rocky Gap II?

Step 1: Pay your bills

Time to compromise on Washington state budget

California's budget bill 'trailers' keep on rolling

Don’t fritter away Dolphins’ funds

Set bar high for DOE officials' pay

California's inland city budgets still weak

Pols' tax plan just another hoax

It's wrong to use sales or gaming tax on roads

Be patient, Missouri. Kansas will self-destruct

A Medicaid reduction? That is not likely

Constitutional convention is best way to cut N.J. property taxes

Chris Christie was right: They're out of their league on taxes

Christie too quick to dismiss tax fix

Reckoning the relative costs of Ohio Medicaid expansion

Narrow focus

California's cap-and-tax grab

Many bills remaining for California Legislature

Internet sales get free ride in Florida

Lift cap to boost charitable giving

Arts decline

Missouri is drunk on tax credits. Who will take the bottle away?

Clean up this program

Enough bang?