Tribune
The 2013 session of the California Legislature is nearly four months old, having begun in early December, and lawmakers have done little to earn their salaries and living expense checks. They've been occupying their – really, our – time with mostly pointless "hearings" on their pet causes and, in the Senate, with a series of lectures from the podium on various topics. Production of legislation has been scant to the point of near invisibility. But the legislative leadership is fast-tracking a couple of bills, and therein lies a tale.
