Once the dust settles after the state's second primary on Tuesday, the budget countdown should begin in earnest by the media.
The Senate rules now require that a budget resolution be filed in committee at least 14 calendar days before a House vote. That leaves only two weeks after Tuesday's election.
To that end, Tom Hester's AP story goes a long way to defining part of the upcoming debate - the state's bleeding pension and health benefits problem and future options to put a tourniquet on it.
More front page articles like the one offered today in the Courier Post are needed.
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