This week under the Gold Dome: Short but action-packed

It was a short back-loaded week in the General Assembly, with the legislature in session only on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But lawmakers packed several major actions into those three days, addressing transportation funding on two fronts, trying to develop a workable compromise on medical marijuana and sending Gov. Nathan Deal’s budget to the next step. The transportation funding issue broke into two pieces when the Senate Transportation Committee approved its own version of comprehensive…