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By Geoff Dornan, Nevada Appeal (Carson City)
The veneer of cooperation between Gov. Jim Gibbons and legislative leadership suffered some damage Monday night as Gibbons blamed lawmakers for creating the budget crisis.
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By David McGrath Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun
The lesson of the night was that no matter who's talking, the message is motivated by politics.
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WY: 'Take your cue from the private sector'
By Joan Barron, Casper Star-Tribune
Gov. Dave Freudenthal pushed for his wind energy package, called for more money for school capital construction and repeated his admonition to leave the state's reserve funds alone during his message to the Legislature on Monday.
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2010 speeches are bleak for most governors
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With nearly three-quarters of their seats up for election this year, the nation’s governors are setting the stage for 2010 by warning that the economic downturn is far from over in the states, where tax collections are weak, unemployment is surging and the likeliest outcomes will be unpopular tax hikes and sharp budget cuts.
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Bold proposals in first gov speeches
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
The governors of California, Kentucky and New York on Wednesday (Jan. 6) became the first to deliver state of the state speeches to their legislatures this year, using the occasion to push policy proposals aimed at helping their states gain jobs and emerge from fiscal crisis.
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AK: Summary of the Alaska state of the state speech
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell used his first state of the state address to call for new merit scholarships to Alaska universities, a two-year suspension of the state’s gas tax and stepped-up measures to stop an “epidemic” of domestic violence and rape.
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AZ: Summary of the Arizona state of the state address
In her Jan. 11 state of the state address that Democrats said sounded more like a campaign speech, first-term Republican Gov. Jan Brewer blamed the state’s dire fiscal woes on Washington and former governor Janet Napolitano (D), now head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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CA: Summary of the California state of the state address
Term-limited California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) outlined a series of sweeping proposals in his final state of the state speech to the Democratic-controlled Legislature Jan. 6, including overhauls of the state’s tax, budget and pension systems that he said would lift the Golden State out of fiscal calamity.
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CO: Summary of the Colorado state of the state address
In his final state of the state address after announcing he would not seek re-election this fall, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) called for an end to “$10 solutions to billion-dollar problems” and asked the Legislature for its help in balancing the state’s budget, advancing green energy and creating jobs.
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GA: Summary of the Georgia state of the state address
Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue used his last state of the state address to reminisce about his seven years in office, relate the state’s fiscal crisis to other challenges in American history and admonish the Republican-majority legislature to make the tough decisions needed to improve the state’s future.
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HI: Summary of the Hawaii state of the state address
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle (R) on Jan. 25 laid out an ambitious agenda for her final year in office, proposing tax credits to stimulate clean energy jobs, strengthening the education department by putting it in the governor’s Cabinet and creating a budget stabilization fund to help protect the state’s finances.
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IA: Summary of the Iowa condition of the state address
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) called on lawmakers Jan. 12 to eliminate certain tax breaks and adopt his “government efficiency” proposals that he said could provide enough savings to allow the state to restore recent cuts in education and other key programs and invest in more “green-collar” jobs.
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ID: Summary of the Idaho state of the state address
Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter (R) used his combined state of the state and budget address on Jan. 11 to push a “responsibly conservative” spending plan based on no growth in tax revenue, even though the state’s economist has indicated growth is a possibility in fiscal 2011.
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IL: Summary of Illinois state of the state address
In a wide-ranging, hour-long address that covered topics from the importance of education to bringing prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to his state, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) said he plans to cut the general fund budget by $2 billion and called for increased, yet fairer, taxes in his Jan. 13 state of the state speech.
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IN: Summary of the Indiana state of the state address
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) boasted during his state of the state address Jan. 19 that Indiana had weathered the recession better than almost every other state, although he still called on lawmakers to make cuts in spending without raising taxes.
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KY: Summary of the Kentucky state of the commonwealth address
“I refuse to use this recession as an excuse not to move forward,” Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) told lawmakers in the politically divided Legislature Jan. 6, as another session of difficult budget choices got under way. “I refuse to hunker down and hide, to just wait out this storm and to passively accept the economic situation that others have created for us.”
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ME: Summary of the Maine state of the state speech
In his last state of the state address, Gov. John Baldacci (D) called on the Democratic-led Legislature to help him close a $438 million budget gap by consolidating natural resource agencies, streamlining government administration, eliminating redundancies between state and local government and cutting social services.
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MO: Summary of the Missouri state of the state speech
Picking up where he left off a year ago, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared Jan. 20 that creating private-sector jobs would be his top priority in the coming year through tax credits, recruitment of high-technology companies and increased job training.
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MS: Summary of the Mississippi state of the state address
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour used his Jan. 18 state of the state address to urge the Democratic-led Legislature to approve a bill that would allow him to cut individual agency budgets up to 10 percent. He also called job creation and workforce training his No. 1 priorities and touted Mississippi’s leadership in alternative energy production.
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NE: Summary of Nebraska state of the state address
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) proposed growing his state’s economy, making over public education and further streamlining state government in his state of the state address Jan. 14, just two months after he and the Legislature budget-cut their way out of a $335 million deficit.
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NY: Summary of the New York state of the state address
Gov. David Paterson (D), facing what could be a difficult primary campaign this year, proposed a plan Jan. 6 that he said would fix New York’s shattered finances, rejuvenate its slumping economy and restore trust in government through a series of major ethics reforms.
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SC: Summary of the South Carolina state of the state address
South Carolina Gov. Sanford, once considered a strong GOP presidential contender, used his final state of the state address to again apologize for the “storm” his extramarital affair wrought and laid out three goals he hopes to accomplish in his final year in office, including a cap on spending.
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SD: Summary of the South Dakota state of the state address
In his final state of the state address, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) called for lawmakers to help carry on the state’s progress in education and the economy, saying South Dakota’s low 5 percent unemployment rate shows the state is heading in the right direction.
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WI: Summary of the Wisconsin state of the state address
It’s been a difficult year for Wisconsin, but Gov. Jim Doyle (D) struck an upbeat tone during his Jan. 26 state of the state address. Despite budget cuts, furloughs and pay and hiring freezes, Doyle warned that more cuts were on the horizon, although he vowed to continue “protecting education, health care and public safety and protecting the middle class against tax increases.”
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