March 13, 2008

Goodbye, Liz Hill

Everyone who has read my columns or my blog knows the admiration I have for the legislative analyst and its leader of 22 years, Elizabeth Hill. The office under her leadership has become an invaluable source of straight, fact-filled information on the workings of state government and on proposals to change it. Today, Hill announced that she will retire at the end of this legislative session. The joint legislative budget committee will conduct a search for her replacement. We can only hope that the committee and the Legislature will find someone committed to continuing the tradition Hill inherited and advanced. If not, if the Legislature compromises even a bit in the direction of a person who might be tempted to shade the analyses to please a partisan boss, we're all in big trouble.

Posted by dweintraub on March 13, 2008 9:05 AM