While Pennsylvania’s transit funding crisis has been alleviated for now, it remained unclear this week whether that development will help grease the overall fiscal wheels of the state’s ten-week-long budget impasse.

The Senate returned to Harrisburg this week for a session that felt as if it could’ve happened three months earlier, and not just because the weather wasn’t stiflingly hot.

Interest groups held events to support their budget requests, lawmakers made aspirational statements about funding deals to come, and the Senate’s Republican majority moved legislation that Democrats are unlikely to be happy about – common activities in the weeks leading up to the June 30 end of the fiscal year.

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