As Butler County school districts consider taking out loans to make it through the rest of 2025 and county commissioners contemplate holding back state fees to keep the county operational, it’s time for our state legislators to take the bull by the horns.

As the folks at the top of the state political pyramid continue to wrangle over dollars and cents, the people they represent are forced to make difficult decisions about everything from layoffs to closing programs temporarily.

While we know logically that state legislators must know what they’re doing right now is negatively impacting everyone who relies on the state budget’s passage to do their work, sometimes it doesn’t feel that way.

Sometimes it feels like their goal is not to pass a budget at all, but instead to be the loudest, to

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