AUSTIN — Legislative leaders began their waltz toward writing a budget this week almost in harmony, avoiding public displays of disunity and hewing to the Republicans’ unwritten rule that they shouldn’t launch much new spending, even when the state’s awash in money. Only a few differences between the House and Senate’s initial or “base” budgets […]

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