The big winner in the county’s 2018 budget, according to our own Greg Benedetti, is District Attorney David Lozier, who previously pleaded his case for an additional  full-time assistant while eliminating one part-time position. Lozier got his full-time assistant while cutting the DA’s budget by one-hundred-thousand dollars. The DA’s office spends 2.68 million of the county’s 75.9 million-dollar general fund budget. As for new equipment, such as bullet-proof vests for the drug task force and SWAT team, Lozier got ten-thousand of the 20-thousand he had asked for. The other ten-thousand is going to come from public safety grant monies. Lozier told our own Frank Sparks during Teleforum this morning on Beaver County Radio why he believes the extra funding is needed in his department…