Last minute moves on state budget

With great fanfare which produced a momentary sigh of relief in this town, the governor and two legislative leaders revealed last week that they had signed an agreement to get the state budget done on time to avert an ugly state government shutdown. And they also agreed to a new $1.85 billion road fix package.

To be clear signing a piece of paper promising to do something, and actually doing it are two distinct items but more on that later.

However to begin with the focus here is how did they get to the point where such a deal could be reached?