Comment on No agreement yet on Massachusetts state budget

BOSTON — House and Senate negotiators are continuing efforts to hammer out a compromise state budget for the fiscal year that started last week.The six-member conference committee has been meeting behind closed doors for several weeks to resolve differences over the $38 billion spending plan. The state, meanwhile, has been operating since July 1 on a $5.5 billion stopgap budget that will remain in place until the end of the month or until Gov.