Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Although they missed the goal of an on-time budget to help put an unprecedented month of scandal and turmoil behind them, the Senate and Assembly struck a tentative agreement Tuesday on spending bills in a $124 billion state budget scheduled to be approved today.
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