A story out today by the AP begins: “Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, are frantically working to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts.”

The story notes that the “end of June marked the end of the fiscal year in many states,” and goes on to chronicle the difficulties of enacting a new fiscal year budget in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut and Mississippi.

Read the whole story here.