Tough choices await returning lawmakers

As California lawmakers prepare for a return to session, they’ll face an unusual set of COVID-related restrictions. As KCRA reported, legislators may only be accompanied by one staff member.  In-person meetings are forbidden. The state Constitution requires that the public be allowed to attend hearings, but attendees must first have their temperature taken and remain separated from others.
Such common-sense annoyances are the least of returning lawmakers’ woes. Before the shutdo