Loads of budget breakdowns are up at the official state media site, as well as the governor's budget office. Here's the speech text:

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And via Triad Strategies, a link to the full 1,054 budget and below a 12-page overview of Gov. Tom Corbett's budget:

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Official press release after the jump:

From the main site, by Laura Olson and Karen Langley:

HARRISBURG -- Gov. Tom Corbett has unveiled his plan for a $27.14 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year, proposing another round of significant cuts to higher education and smaller decreases across many agencies.

That overall spending figure nearly matches the current $27.16 billion plan, which was the result of deep reductions to schools and state social-services.

The administration said that maintaining spending amount will require some painful reductions in order to avoid raising taxes following what is now projected to be a $719 million deficit by the end of June.

Local school districts appear to be shielded from the many of the blows associated with another year of slow-growing tax revenues. A proposed revamping of the basic education funding would combine a modest increase in that funding with K-12 school districts getting block grants instead of separate funding streams, which the administration says would shrink management costs.

Meanwhile, three of the four state-related universities -- the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, and Temple University -- would see a 30 percent cut. The fourth, Lincoln University, would be flat-funded.

The State System of Higher Education colleges also would see fewer funds, with a 20 percent decrease proposed for those schools.

Among the other cuts, the Department of Public Welfare will see a decrease, including elimination of the cash portion of the general assistance program. The Department of Health also would take a hit, as would the General Assembly's allocation. Dollars for county fairs, food marketing, and the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary school would disappear from the operating budget, instead to be funded out of the state's Race Horse Development Fund.

With a Marcellus Shale regulatory and revenue bill speeding toward his desk, environmental funding in both the Departments of Environmental Protection and of Conservation and Natural Resources will see their funding shrink.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Department of Corrections will not see an increase, with last year's nearly $1.9 billion funding remaining level.

While the governor proposed cuts in state funding to most departments, several would see increases. Those include the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, with more disaster-relief funding after a year of massive flooding, and the Probation and Parole Board.

The state police also would see a slight increase, to support 115 new state troopers.

The Treasury Department would see an increase to pay for the state's ever-growing debt service. The Department of Insurance would receive a slight boost of about $4 million for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

When the governor begins his remarks this morning, much of his focus likely will be on job creation. His budget touts a new JOBSFirst PA program, to combine many of the current economic development incentives and boosting outreach to companies.

LA Times/David Horsey

It should be a decent night for the Rick Santorum For President campaign. Jim O'Toole sets it up:

Mr. Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, jumped from dead last to a win in Iowa and finished ahead of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire, but his campaign has had a tough time competing with the buzz generated by Mr. Gingrich's big victory in South Carolina, which came two days after the belated announcement of the actual Iowa results. Mr. Santorum has had to fend off repeated suggestions from the Gingrich campaign that he should withdraw from the race to concentrate conservative strength behind the Georgian.

The results of caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri could allow Mr. Santorum to make his case to be the standard-bearer of the anybody-but-Mitt crowd. Mr. Santorum is certain to get more votes than Mr. Gingrich in Missouri, a state where his conservative rival is not even on the ballot. He is running ahead of the Georgian in Colorado and actually led the entire field in a recent poll of likely caucus voters in Minnesota.

Don't believe the media? Then just ask Newt Gingrich: “I think it’s going to be a good day for Santorum and a relatively bad day for Romney.”

Or listen to the LA Times' David Horsey, who looks at the polls at sees Santorum doing better with independent voters than Romney. (That's Horsey's cartoon up top by the way.)

And not to be a bummer, but today's results may not mean all that much for RS other than spin. From the WashPost:

First, Missouri is awarding no delegates based on the results of the primary (instead, it will do so following March 17 caucuses). Thus, today’s contest has absolutely no actual bearing on the GOP presidential contest.

Second, because there are no delegates at stake, Romney has put forth basically no effort in the state and has no staff on the ground there.

And third, it’s one of just two February states that Romney lost in 2008 (he won the other five). And it and the other state Santorum might win today — Minnesota — both border the only other state he has won, Iowa. So it’s little harder to argue that this is evidence of Santorum's broader nationwide appeal.

And despite what the media said yesterday, Indiana officials say he still won't be on the May 8 ballot there.

The candidate's full public schedule for today and tomorrow after the jump:

Johnstown Democrat Mark Critz continues to pile up union endorsements as he preps for his internecine fight with McCandless Dem Jason Altmire.

The latest came yesterday from the state's Service Employees International Union in a press conference (above) at the portico the City-County Building. The giant union (which represents health care workers, building cleaning and security workers, and public employees) has about 5,000 members in the 12th District.

"We are proud of the work that Congressman Critz has done in Washington, and we know that he will continue to fight hard for us, for workers, both union and non-union, all across the state," said Gabe Morgan, president of the Pennsylvania SEIU state council.

Critz has been relying on union endorsements while Altmire enjoys a financial advantage (he has twice as much cash) and represents more of their shared, new 12th CD. The SEIU nod follows others for Critz including the United Mineworkers, Laborers District Council of Western Pennsylvania, United Steelworkers, and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

Next up are the battles for Democratic committee endorsements in Allegheny and some the other counties in the district (which also includes parts of Beaver, Cambria, Cambria, Lawrence, Somerset and Westmoreland counties). The Allegheny endorsement meeting is Sunday at the IBEW hall on the South Side.