An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which together tell us about the fiscal health of state and local governments. The RI report gives us data on the amount of tax revenues state and local governments have been collecting — they’re up in many states — while the CBPP report tells us what the states have been doing on the spending side to balance their budgets.