"We are funding our state's priorities in a fiscally responsible and fiscally conservative way," Mr. O'Malley said in a news conference in Annapolis.
The proposed $30 billion operating and $1.5 billion capital budgets for fiscal 2008, which begins July 1, together grew by only 2.5 percent over last year, which ballooned by 12 percent over the previous year.
The spending plan represents one of the most modest in a...
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