SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson is proposing a nearly $5.7 billion state budget that provides for an 11 percent increase in spending next year and leaves room for about $125 million in tax cuts. In releasing its budget recommendations to the Legislature on Wednesday, the Richardson administration proposed a more than doubling of state money for pre-kindergarten programs serving 4-year-olds and phasing in over two years an expansion of Medicaid to provide health care to more uninsured low-income adults.~~ snip ~~ Public schools and higher education accounted for much of the governor's proposed budget increase. The governor recommended ... a...