"We are coming up to the new budget season," he said.

And the Council scores points with constituent groups by rallying to their defense each budget season.

Democrats, privately, worry about following a weakened governor into a another tough budget season.

As in the previous season, there was no big budget season launch advertising campaign.

"It's the worst municipal budget season we have seen in a decade," he said.

The Medicaid battle has become a central political and policy fight of this year's budget season.

Saturday mornings votes ended the most contentious budget season here in memory.

And this year could prove to be an especially difficult budget season.

The voting ended what political veterans said was the state's most contentious budget season.

Never mind that it's budget season at work, so I'm deep into crunching numbers there as well.