Budget talks entering final phase

State budget talks are entering their final phase. The House and Senate have appointed members to a budget conference committee.
The committee will work out differences between the operating budgets passed by both bodies.
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Mark Neuman (R-Big Lake) and Steve Thompson (R-Fairbanks), two of the House members of the conference committee.  (File photo Rachel Waldholz, APRN – Anchorage)The House budget would cut 280 million dollars from the part of the budget under the Legisla