Budget picture to clarify - and improve?

A new forecast is out Friday, and officials say it may not be as bad as first thought

By Nick Budnick / The Bulletin
May 11, 2009

SALEM — The doomsday scenario some were predicting for the state budget — across-the-board reductions leading to closures of prisons, drastic cuts to social services and nearly two months of school days lost — is looking less likely, according to top state....

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