The General Assembly was pretty secretive (again):

It began with redistricting, a process that the State Integrity Project rated "F" for lack of transparency.

Four months later, it drew to a close with a secret Sunday confab in a Nashville restaurant to carve up the pork in the budget bill. House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick defended the rendezvous, saying, "There's been a lot of secrecy for 200 years. I don't think it's any worse than it's always been."

Sadly, that may be true. As they often have done in the past, lawmakers again added exemptions to the Public Records Act, meaning that more public business can be kept private.