Mulcair's
balanced -
budget promise sought to reassure NDP - wary voters but also curtailed the party's
ambition, while the Liberals peeled off progressive support with its own abandonment
of a
budget -
balance pledge, plus its exciting flash
of radicalism — a vague plan to legalize marijuana.
Balancing high - flown
ambition and ethical housecleaning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out his agenda for 2016 in a speech that did double duty as his State
of the State address and a $ 145 billion executive
budget proposal.