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Work Continues on West Virginia Budget.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003

By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 14--House and Senate budget conferees will do the heavy lifting today as they try to resolve remaining differences in a 2003-04 budget that will, for the first time in state history, top $3 billion.

Key areas to be worked out are in public and higher education, House Finance Chairman Harold Michael, D-Hardy, said. "There are some items of contention we hope we can get resolved tomorrow," he said Thursday.

Still unresolved is whether the Senate will accept the House's proposed one-year moratorium on statewide public school spending on computers in the classroom. Michael said Thursday the House wants to study the effectiveness of the program during...

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