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Awake yet? We're not talking Countdown To Ecstasy.  We're talking Countdown To Inevitability. A relatively drama-free June 30. We don't yet know whether the Senate will take up the magazine…

Let's see...I've got my cold-brewed coffee w/oat milk at the ready, facing at least two hours of cogent analysis and unrelenting snark...let's DO this! The Bill Mill is grinding overtime…

Everybody has their wish-list.  Here's mine.  I'm limiting this to those items that conceivably could be done before the conclusion of this legislative session.  So, I'm not including pot legalization…

Dispatcher: "Adam-12, Adam-12, we have a Gold Alert on SB 147 and SB 148. Both have gone missing and have been unaccounted for for at least 48 hours. Please respond."…

Pretty much every bill we discussed yesterday passed yesterday.  The one exception, HB 122 (Heffernan), which would require that persons with disabilities be paid a minimum wage, is at the…

Five more days. Lots of unfinished business.  Some, like the Budget Bill, will likely get done as early as today.  But where's the urgency on marijuana legalization (HB 150), policing…

A great day--a GREAT day, in the State Senate yesterday.  Dave Sokola and the merry band of progressives there--RULE. So many great bills passed yesterday that it's hard to know…

Let's start with some good news, sorta.  SB 15, the minimum wage increase legislation, is on Thursday's House Agenda.  However, it's a long Agenda, SB 15 is at the bottom…

Today's the day that marijuana legalization comes to the House floor.  It's likely to be a lo-o-o-ng day. After all, it's a lo-o-o-ng bill.  HB 150 (Osienski) already has ten…