Our part-time legislative budgeting process needs work

Being a state legislator is a thankless job — almost as bad as being a Hoopfest court monitor. And even more so this session what with the Legislature needing not only the four-month regular session but also two overtime special sessions and a last-minute, late-night negotiating meeting to pass the $38.2 billion 2015-2017 operating budget.

And even then, apparently not all the work is finished as the whole package could unravel over funding, or not funding, K-12 classroom-reduction initiative 1351. We’ll know how the state Senate deals with this issue in the coming days or weeks.

Much has been...