It's budget-deal day as Legislature's adjournment nears
Plus a truce in the weed wars, unionization for the Legislature's staff, and more redistricting weirdness
Today’s the day the big budget compromises get rolled out in the Legislature. The operating and capital budgets have been in closed-door negotiations for several days as lawmakers wrangled over how to spend a flood of new tax revenue and federal aid.
By rule, the budgets have to be made public, or “sit on the rail” for 24 hours before lawmakers take a …
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