Los Angeles Times

Arduin to Walk Economic Tightrope

SACRAMENTO — She is the marvel of Republican strategists nationwide as a fiscal fix-it expert able to swoop into states awash in red ink and restore stability. Now, Donna Arduin, confirmed by the ...
Governing

Want to Slash Your State’s Budget? This Woman Can Help.

People who work at top levels in state government change jobs about as often as anyone else, but they usually do it within the same state. Donna Arduin is an exception: a public executive itinerant.
Los Angeles Times

Arduin to Leave Finance Position

SACRAMENTO — Donna Arduin, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lead budget advisor and an early conservative voice in the administration, has resigned and will leave office as soon as Friday, the governor’s ...
Talking Points Memo

Meet The Right-Wing Consultant Who Goes From State To State Slashing Budgets

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Alaska Public Media

Nikiski legislator hires former Alaska budget director Donna Arduin as policy advisor

Donna Arduin answers questions from the press about the governor’s ten-year budget plan in 2019. (Skip Gray/360 North) A former Alaska budget director who was known for her budget-slashing policies is ...
Juneau Empire

Budget director’s history of cutting with ‘hatchet, not a scalpel’ sparks concern

New Office of Management and Budget Director Donna Arduin is known for slashing state budgets and hailed by some as a budget wizard. One reason Gov. Mike Dunleavy brought her on to his team is to help ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Donna Arduin out as Dunleavy’s top budget official, may become adviser

Office of Management and Budget director Donna Arduin will leave her role as Alaska’s top budget official, Dunleavy chief of staff Ben Stevens said Monday. Her job will end Oct. 1, and the state will ...
Alaska Dispatch News

As Alaska’s budget uproar rolls on, a top Dunleavy adviser has seen it before

State bureaucrats rarely become household names. But say the name “Donna Arduin” to an Alaskan these days and they’re likely to know exactly who you’re talking about. Arduin has been in the spotlight ...
Juneau Empire

State’s budget director Arduin is out

Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s controversial pick for state budget director — who was at the helm helping Dunleavy deliver his original promise to cut more than a billion dollars from the state’s ...
The State Journal-Register

Arduin out as budget adviser

A day after saying Donna Arduin's contract to advise Gov. Bruce Rauner on budget matters might be extended, the administration announced that she would be leaving the job. Arduin's last day was Friday ...
Alaska Public Media

With Arduin out, Alaska's budget process is about to change

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration plans to have commissioners play a more prominent role in the budget process this year. Legislators are praising the Dunleavy administration’s plan. They’ve noted ...