State has avoided any real budget cuts

Sunday, January 5, 2003

I couldn't help but laugh Thursday when state budget director Linda Luebbering stepped to the microphone to announce the serious news that state government is being forced to cutback substantially because of Missouri's dwindling revenue. With Governor Bob Holden noticeably absent, Luebbering said the state was being forced to eliminate 870 positions and cut $67 million in planned spending. That's just a drop in the bucket of the $300 million revenue shortfall. But it marked the beginning of a certain round of additional reductions in the coming weeks and months.

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