By Stephen Winham (Special to LouisianaVoice) I became the state budget director in 1988.  Because we had consistently spent more than we had taken in since 1984, we faced a $1 Billion dollar budget and cash flow hole in a budget less than half the size of today’s.  We literally did not have the … Continue reading Louisiana Budget Practices: a brief 30-year history and one scenario for closing the $1.6 billion gap for Fiscal Year 2016