Last week marked the first legislative interim meetings since the end of June, with lawmakers getting a two-month summer break.

Well, some lawmakers. Much of Republican legislative leadership spent their summer in planning meetings for a possible special session that did not happen. At one point, there was a hard date set for a special session in July. But then that was moved back to September coinciding with last week’s interims.

It should be obvious that a special session — which was to be focused on the Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) — did not occur. While discussion continues between Gov. Patrick Morrisey and legislative leadership, a special session probably will not occur for PEIA this year unless it happens during October interims.

“We continue to have very good convers

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