"No plan survives first contact with the enemy," said Prussian military strategist Helmuth von Moltke. Likewise, when the annual budget process transitions to execution, it’s already out of date. The ...

Explore budgeting methods, like zero-, activity-, & priority-based, incremental, envelope system, and the 50/30/20 rule. Discover the pros & cons of each.

Even as Cambridge City Councilors express frustration over funding allocation, City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 defended his financial decisions as Cambridge’s budget growth slows. This year’s budget ...

Americans don’t often have a direct say in how their tax dollars get spent. Those decisions are generally left to elected officials. So, some places have engaged in something called “participatory ...

The governor and the California Legislature should heed LAO’s chilling conclusion: “Taken together, these trends raise ...

Pending tax and spending legislation is putting additional upward pressure on the U.S. national debt. Much like the broader U.S. budget process, a legislative procedure currently being used to advance ...

The city of Beaumont is in the process of finalizing its budget for fiscal year 2026. Last year, when the city approved a budget with a $3.5 million deficit, it came under intense scrutiny. However, ...

Citing uncertainty at the federal level, Pasadena officials said the forthcoming budget process would be one of the most challenging in recent memory. Pasadena City Council met Monday, May 5, and ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- City leaders unveiled a proposed budget on Monday that includes roughly $25 million less in projected revenue for fiscal year 2026, largely the result of ...

The biennial state budget bill, HB 96, is now more than 5,000 pages long — more than nine times the length of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. And it’ll be even longer by the time the Senate is ...

This is one in a series about managing costs and budgets in radio operations. Tim Neese is president of MultiTech Consulting Inc. He has been a broadcast engineer for more than 35 years, as a ...