The second session of the 109th Legislature adjourned sine die on Friday, April 17th. Interviewed last week, District 34 Senator Loren Lippincott described the sixty-day short session as largely defined by the state’s budget deficit and lawmakers’ attempts to make up for it.

“This was year number two of our two-year biennium,” noted the senator. “The thing that really struck a chord…was the budget.…