TRENTON - After late afternoon meetings gave some hope to hallway wanderers, the legislature will move forward with its [bubbleAutoLink text="own budget" id="31616"].

Talks with the Governor appear to have collapsed for the moment.

"The Governor's doing a press conference alone - that should tell you something," a statehouse source said.

Speaker Craig Coughlin went back to his caucus to report the news.

He told his members he's going forward.

"There is a difference between OLS numbers and state treasury," a caucus member groaned.