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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/new_montana_budget_forecast_sees_red/15908/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: HELENA – A new budget forecast indicates that state coffers will run into a deficit by the middle of 2011 — a forecast the governor's office called irrelevant even as it makes plans to start cutting agency budgets. The Legislative Fiscal Division reported Monday that tax collection trends indicate the state will be in the hole more than $60 million when the budget period ends in the middle of 2011. It is the latest in a string of forecasts describing an increasingly bleak budget picture as weak tax collections show no sign of improving.