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July 24, 2015

Highways to health care: challenges for governors

  • An Associated Press analysis this spring found that at least 22 states will be dealing with budget shortfalls for the 2016 fiscal year.
  • By JONATHAN MATTISE
    Associated Press

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Money to repair highways, rising health care costs and controversies surrounding attempts to combat global warming are among topics the nation's governors plan to tackle when they gather this week in West Virginia.

    The National Governors Association summer meeting, which runs Thursday through Saturday at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, comes as states find themselves grappling with an array of issues that defy easy answers. Those include long-range funding for infrastructure upgrades, the effects of prolonged drought, and adequately funding public schools and colleges.


     
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