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The state proposed specific budget reductions today intended to meet a $577 million shortfall in the current biennial budget. 

K-12 education, services to the elderly and state prisons are among the areas to be slashed.  But the losses would be spread around, since the governor ordered "across-the-board" reductions of nine percent. 

This afternoon, to review the painful choices – and provide some background to them – our Political Analyst, Bill Lunch, has joined us from the OSU Media Center in Corvalis.

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