1. The legislative session was supposed to end yesterday, but....

The legislature still has to deal with a few bills, including one we've been tracking all session —a bill to amend I-937, the voter-approved renewable energy initiative.

Totally hilarious: The Senate tried to do this quietly, it blew up in their face, and now there's going to be a whole attention-grabbing special session about it. 

(The governor's "cap and trade" bill, now referred to as the "and" bill because there's no cap or trade aspect to it, was also left hanging.)

2. Another bill we were tracking down to the wire—a bill to increase payments and broaden eligibility for unemployment insurance—did get resolved: Payments and eligibility will not be increased or broadened. The House backed off  its pro-labor demands , and the legislature passed what amounts to  a tax break for employers instead yesterday.

(A few Seattle-area legislators—Reps. Mary Lou Dickerson, Bob Hasegawa, Phyllis Kenney, Sharon Nelson, and Scott White—stuck with the Blue/Green coalition and voted against the bill.)

3. In exciting PubliCola news, we're leaving our makeshift office in the Capitol cafeteria today, and moving into our office in downtown Seattle.