Less fillingLink to September 11 stateline.org post, "Weekly Wrap: Streamlining state government".
Excerpt: More and more state leaders from both political parties are talking about changing the face of state government as the recession severely limits the services states can offer.
“Indiana will have fewer dollars to work with in 2011 than we did in 2007,” Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) recently told a gathering of state capitol reporters in Indianapolis, according to The Statesman-Journal of Salem, Ore. “That says you cannot have the same government you had, unless you plan to go broke.”
“Mitch Daniels is right,” Oregon’s Democratic governor, Ted Kulongoski, told the newspaper.
Both governors are trying to “streamline” state government to make it more efficient. Daniels has pushed for outsourcing more state services — the Hoosier State already has privatized the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road — and called for small school districts to merge. Kulongoski wants to eliminate 18 state panels and commissions and suspend or consolidate dozens of others, KUOW radio reported.
Excerpt: More and more state leaders from both political parties are talking about changing the face of state government as the recession severely limits the services states can offer.
“Indiana will have fewer dollars to work with in 2011 than we did in 2007,” Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) recently told a gathering of state capitol reporters in Indianapolis, according to The Statesman-Journal of Salem, Ore. “That says you cannot have the same government you had, unless you plan to go broke.”
“Mitch Daniels is right,” Oregon’s Democratic governor, Ted Kulongoski, told the newspaper.
Both governors are trying to “streamline” state government to make it more efficient. Daniels has pushed for outsourcing more state services — the Hoosier State already has privatized the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road — and called for small school districts to merge. Kulongoski wants to eliminate 18 state panels and commissions and suspend or consolidate dozens of others, KUOW radio reported.
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