Alt-year Lege costs Texas fed biolab site

I've been saying for years that it's RIDICULOUS for the country's second-largest state to have a legislature that only meets every other year for it.

Well, now Texas has gotten burned by that horse-and-buggy/anti-Reconstruction mentality, and burned big.

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded the siting of a $450 million federal biolab to Kansas, not Texas. Why?

In part because of financial incentives the Kansas Legislature passed in 2008. The Texas Lege, of course, didn't meet in 2008.

"A process that asks states to put together $100 million-plus packages within a month – while some legislatures are not in session to assist with such appropriations – is fundamentally inequitable," Gov. Rick Perry said in aletter to DHS.

Well, boo hoo.

Put that on the Lege's agenda for this year - a constitutional amendment for an every-year legislature.