Matt Murphy recounts the budget accord passed on Beacon Hill 18 days late and the acrimony that followed; Colin Young runs down the 10 active conference committees hashing out compromise bills with less than two weeks to go for formal sessions; Andy Metzger discusses safe injection sites and how the U.S. attorney might have influenced action in the Senate; and Sam Doran, recently back from a trip abroad, explains a couple rules from capitol buildings in the British Isles.