Bipartisan state budget passes
State lawmakers put their final touches on deep spending cuts as they ended a dreary budget-slashing special session Wednesday night.
The Senate approved more than $4 billion in recession-driven budget cuts — to higher education, social services, health care and other programs — a day after the same budget passed the House.
Democrats and Republicans engaged in a praise-a-thon as the budget sailed through the Senate on a bipartisan 34-13 vote — with no one speaking in opposition.