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Granholm's Budget Ax Falls on 100 State Troopers LANSING, MI (Associated Press) -

A hundred state troopers will be laid off at the end of June, local governments will see revenue sharing slashed and less will be available for community health services and those treating Medicaid patients under the latest round of budget cuts.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm's executive order cuts $349 million from the current state budget. The state budget director presented it Tuesday to a joint session of the House and Senate appropriations committees.

Legislative leaders and the Granholm administration have been scrambling to find a way to patch a budget shortfall that has grown to $1.3 billion in recent weeks.

Many expect another executive order will be needed after the May 15 revenue estimating conference, since revenues likely are to keep falling. © Copyright 2012, Associated Press