The legislative deadpool

Odd tax votes, farm worker rights, toxic tires, political violence, and some shameless sports pandering.

The first legislative cutoffs of the short 2026 session kindled and killed dreams, and simplified the lives of legislative staff, lobbyists and watchers, yours included. Big fiscal decisions remain, including many revenue bills to close the roughly $2.3 billion budget deficit, and some that would make the hole bigger.

As the legislative session nears it…