Tagged: budget

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• House budget would cut services to the blind, restore higher education dollars
• City takes aim at energy efficiency in rental units
• Opponents of blight designation voice concerns

Budget writers in the Missouri House have approved their version of the 13 bills that make up the state's budget for next year.  Committee members eliminated $28 million for a program that aids the blind, but then put 6 million back into it from another source. 

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

US Senator Claire McCaskill says President Barack Obama’s budget, which was released Monday, is a workable document.

Columbia city officials are still discussing options for shoring up a projected one-million-dollar shortfall in the city’s transit budget.