Conversations, in some of the many debates, turn quickly back to how best to lure jobs and solve a state deficit expected to hit $6 billion in the next two years.
What the Legislature approved would let the city increase taxes on sales and income to help solve a $3.8 billion deficit and stave off the severe layoffs the mayor had threatened under a so-called doomsday budget.
Van Marwijk is expected to field his strongest team as Stuart Pearce attempts to solve a striker deficit that has left him with the callow Danny Welbeck, Daniel Sturridge and Fraizer Campbell, none of whom has started for England and who have only four appearances between them.
As leaders in Illinois continued fighting over how best to solve a $9 billion deficit in the state's budget, layoff notices were mailed to 2,600 state workers, Gov. Patrick J. Quinn said.
Mr. Romney had been a blue-state governor who championed a state-run health program with an individual mandate and had been willing to increase fees on residents to solve a state budget deficit.
For months, Republican lawmakers and Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, have disagreed about how to solve a projected $5 billion deficit, with Republicans favoring spending cuts and Mr. Dayton calling for a tax increase.
Mr. Dayton, the first Democrat to serve as governor in 20 years, campaigned on a promise to tax the wealthy to solve a huge budget deficit, but he will have to work with new Republican majorities that oppose that.
Right up to the midnight deadline on Thursday, Minnesotans, who have been known to boast of their professional, efficient government, had held out hope that the state's divided leadership could reach a deal on how to solve a looming budget deficit.
Mr. Walker has said his cuts to collective bargaining were needed to solve a $3.6 billion state budget deficit and defends the move as one element of a plan to turn the state's economic climate around.
In 2007, a contentious standoff over how to solve a more than $1.5 billion deficit in the state budget dragged on for months, finally ending in the face of a government shutdown and with tax increases — deeply difficult, Ms. Granholm said, but unavoidable.
