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The political landscape has changed since the Legislature first adopted a formal process to deal with legislator misconduct. A new subcommittee aims to fix that.
Spying allegations warrant investigation to prevent further coarsening of politics
The editorial board asks: How effective can our statehouse be if its occupants are worried that they might be spied on by people within their own party?
Lawmakers need to provide funding and solutions, Drake opines, not additional obstacles for the agencies trying to cobble together fixes with federal resources.
Provenza flap is latest ripple in an ongoing conversation about how lawmakers are expected to behave — on and offline — and how leadership should address misconduct.