{"id":15423,"date":"2015-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/why-alaska-is-ready-for-forward-thinking-budgeting\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:01:36","slug":"why-alaska-is-ready-for-forward-thinking-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/why-alaska-is-ready-for-forward-thinking-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Alaska is ready for \u201cforward thinking\u201d budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all familiar with the saying \u201cpenny wise, pound foolish,\u201d but we would do well to heed this advice this legislative session. The No. 1 responsibility of government is to create an effective and realistic budget. Past budgets have all too often reflected the whims of parochial interests without vetting whether spending was both effective and within our means. With declining oil revenues, we are due to seriously overhaul our attitude toward budgeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a001\/21\/2015<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/article\/20150120\/why-alaska-ready-forward-thinking-budgeting\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Source<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all familiar with the saying \u201cpenny wise, pound foolish,\u201d but we would do well to heed this advice this legislative session. 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