Your Senator's Perspective - Special session on horizon

On the Monday after Thanksgiving I will be back at the Capitol to begin a “special” session of the Legislature. I’ve been through plenty of these in 19 years, and most of them aren’t all that special – they tend to happen only because the Legislature failed to get its work done in the time allotted by the state constitution for regular legislative sessions (105 days in odd-numbered years, 60 days in even-numbered years).

Of course, some of the special sessions have been more deserving of the name. In November 2007, for example, we met for one day to reinstate the 1 percent property-tax cap cre...