Budget: Good News And Bad

From John Hood:

RALEIGH — North Carolina state government finally has a budget for the fiscal year that began last month. If you are a fiscal conservative, there’s nothing much to celebrate. Indeed, it might actually have been better if state legislators, already prone to procrastination and tempted by the seductive wiles of a long session in the capital city, had chosen to dicker over the budget well into the fall rather than settle things in August.