Gov. Martin O?Malley this week has been pretty cagey about how he wants to fill a $1.5 billion hole in next year?s state budget, but he has made clear what he doesn?t want to make the kind of drastic cuts in spending proposed Wednesday in a “doomsday” budget by legislative analysts.

In an hour-long WTOP radio call-in show Friday morning, O?Malley said he did not like the proposed reductions for colleges and universities and cuts incorrections officers, and he particularly didn?t like drastic reductions in aid to local schools and governments ? $646 million, a 44 percent whack.

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