Youngkin chases after government efficiency with latest executive order
(The Center Square) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued his thirty-ninth executive order, requiring state agencies to improve their permitting and approvals processes and continue quarterly reporting on their progress. Executive Order 39, issued Friday, attempts to build on some agencies' momentum in improving their permitting and regulatory practices. Throughout his governorship, Youngkin has repeatedly called for reducing government regulation and streamlining its systems and procedures through executive directives and orders....
Kansas legislature will craft its own budget, rather than use the governor's
Kansas legislative leadership approved a new committee to build its own budget from the ground up, a significant diversion to the current process that’s based off the governor’s budget. The process of creating a budget is one of the governor’s most powerful tools, but throughout the process legislative leadership maintained that the change in the process is about efficiency rather than politics. ...