3... 2... 1... budget!

The Legislature has come to a budget agreement which calls for $5.9 billion in spending, a ramped-up increase in road construction (and reconstruction), a few more bucks for education, a $2 million subsidy for the Heartland Flyer passenger train, and $58 million in to-be-determined tax cuts.

House and Senate leadership have provided the outline: now the subcommittees must dot every I and cross every T. (I, of course, worry about the Fs.)