[Opinion] From airports to water lines, here are 25 things state legislators want to see in the budget

From airports to water lines, here are 25 things state legislators want to see in the budget

This is a budget year, which means there are 140 state legislators who have 140 different opinions about what should be in the state’s two-year spending plan. Under a quirk in Virginia’s budget cycle, the outgoing governor, Glenn Youngkin, prepared the budget and presented it about a month before he left office. Now legislators have finished introducing all their proposed amendments.  The next big step comes on Sunday, Feb. 22. That’s when the t…