It's not a last-day-of-the-session like most last days of the session. Instead of feverish meetings to resolve pointed differences, there are leisurely lunches and scrapbook photographs being taken.
Some of those scrapbook photos are legislators posing with the speaker of the House, who won't be in that role when the gavel falls in January. Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, said it outright today that she won't be running for re-election to her House seat. She didn't say what she will be doing instead, though one big possibility is running for governor.
Those of us with deadlines to think about wouldn't mind if they felt a little more feverish about adjourning sooner rather than later, but we are guessing late afternoon/early evening.
- Terri Hallenbeck
