WITH attention at the Capitol focused squarely on state budget talks and union negotiations, it might be easy to forget that more than 100 new bills have been proposed since the General Assembly convened Jan . 8
But the district said it couldn't answer a request for future-looking financial projections, resting the blame squarely on state government.
When the California tax board appealed to the Supreme Court with the help of former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, its appeal urged the justices to rule squarely that states are shielded from such claims in other states.
Frankly, twenty years later, anything that is not working in Newark Public Schools is squarely on the State's shoulders.
Careers services are made scapegoats for rising graduate unemployment, when blame should lie squarely on the state of the economy.
The comptroller's latest audit points squarely at the state's Education Department, which clearly needs to do a better job of overseeing this troubled program.
While county officials are placing the blame squarely at the state's doorstep, closer to home there is growing sentiment that the county is not working hard enough to resolve the situation, including failing to rein in its spending.
While the board members acknowledged that the cuts were painful, they directed blame squarely at a state government that they said had failed its responsibility to adequately finance a basic public service.
Mr. Pataki's plans have, however, veered off script, and he is insisting on a new deal that will not transfer the financial risk to investors, as he had intended, but will keep it squarely in the state's lap.
The Senate race here, a long, expensive, nail-biting affair that put this state squarely in the national spotlight, wound up this morning with Senator Tim Johnson, the Democratic incumbent, leading his opponent, Representative John Thune, by a mere 527 votes.
