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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, January 21, 2018

All About The Calendar Monday is Day 12 of the 60-day legislative session. Mornings (9am - noon) are spent in floor debate on carryover bills from last year.  Bills introduced this session should start popping-up on the agenda soon. Afternoons (1:30pm - finish) are...

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, January 14, 2018

Whose ox gets gored? The state budget faces a $175M - $200M shortfall in the second half of the biennial budget (7/1/18 - 6/30/19).  What's worse, annual tax revenues are projected to remain in the dumper as Ag producers took a beating again this year. This Governor,...

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, January 7, 2018

My Kids Are Back By Miss Helen Crump The bell rang Wednesday at 9:45 a.m. and the classroom filled for the second session of the 105th Legislature. All 49 wiggly bodies were present and just as sweet as my homemade apple pie. We have sixty days to complete...

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, May 21, 2017

This is the End Can't get that Jim Morrison song out of my mind. An $8.9 billion state budget for 2017-18 / 2018-19 was finalized last week, and yes there was partisan drama. Again. Generally, conservatives won the budget tussle and cut spending. Progressives believe...