There is a reason why the act of making the columns of a budget come out even is called "balancing."

Every budget has two parts, spending and revenue. We tend to envision them as the two sides of a scale, balancing delicately on a fulcrum between them. When the two sides of a scale are uneven, you restore balance by adding weight to the lighter side or removing weight from the... >>MORE

It's bigger, not new and most certainly not improved.

It's Wisconsin's $5.4 billion state budget deficit.

When Jim Doyle first ran for governor in 2002, the state was facing a $3.2 billion budget shortfall and Doyle blamed that budget train wreck on his predecessor, Gov. Scott McCallum. Six years later, Wisconsin's budget has a $5.4 billion... >>MORE