Senate Management Council to rule on Hutchings LGBTQ complaint
The Legislature adjourned without deciding whether disciplinary actions were warranted by the senator’s ‘vulgar’ conversation with student lobbyists.
Drew Perkins
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
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.
Companies, activists unite against corporate income tax
Romance bloomed between corporate lobbyists and anti-tax activists at a Valentine’s Day hearing of a corporate income tax bill.
