-Publicola's Josh Feit, who's been riding herd all session on a bill to rewrite environmentalists' Initiative 937 (he hates it), has the Easter-eve story of how Sen. Chris Marr's controversial bill died and was resurrected in a surprise move in the House.

-NPI's Andrew Villeneuve writes that the Homeowners' Bill of Rights is advancing. Short form of the arguments:
-Homeowners with appalling structural and leak problems say they have little recourse when the most expensive purchase of their lives turns out to be defective
-Struggling home builders argue that there are plenty of ways to sue them now, and that essentially mandating a new-home warranty in state law is both unnecessary and very expensive for both builders and home buyers.

-The TNT's Peter Callaghan weighs in with some history on income tax proposals and a prediction:

Wealthy people, it seems, are fair game because so many of us are sure they’re to blame for the financial turmoil. It’s tax policy as vengeance.
It won’t pass, but it will appear on GOP campaign brochures next election. And it might cost a few Democrats their seats, but probably not.
And in the scheme of things, income-tax talk is just that – a verbal distraction until lawmakers come up with the actual solutions.

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