As smoke clears, House and Senate reload for 2020 budget
Dems, rank-and-file lawmakers said programs for state’s vulnerable are casualties of budget war as senators called for rules change to amass more power
Policy
Game and Fish proposes new migration corridor protections
Thirty-four years after its discovery, Game and Fish and others map, propose to protect Path of the Pronghorn plus a mule deer migration corridor.
About last night: How the 2019 session spilled into overtime
The clock ticked down to midnight, with several matters still to resolve, forcing the bleary-eyed Legislature to clock back in for a wee-hours conclusion early on Feb. 28.
Stifled by leadership, wind tax proponents look to voters
Frustrated by the speaker’s refusal to consider wind tax bills, a citizens’ group will try to put an initiative before voters in 2020 to raise the tax.
House votes to handcuff counties on private schools
Committee of the Whole passes Friess school bill 31-24 in first of three tests on House floor.
