Lawmakers told fiscal forecasts will require some hard choices

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Like a bad cold Maryland can’t shake, big deficits are a part of the state’s fiscal future for the next six years, even if slots revenue kicks in, Warren Deschenaux, the legislature’s fiscal guru, told lawmakers in Annapolis.

“We’re still kissing a billion dollars” in fiscal 2014, Deschenaux said late Tuesday.

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