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No "new" pork money, but ...
A short passage buried deep in the state budget authorizes the transfer of up to $38 million to the Legislature’s “community projects fund” – traditionally a pork-barrel account for funding pet projects. Its inclusion raised a Capitol buzz over whether lawmakers had included pork-barrel spending in the budget after swearing it off.
But it’s not new money, officials from all sides said.
Instead,...
