Budget, jobs on tap for Legislature
Errin Haines
The state is finally collecting more tax money after a bruising recession, but Georgia lawmakers returning to Atlanta for the 2012 legislative session are likely to contend with a budget shortfall created by rising costs in health care and education and accounting tricks used to stitch together last year
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