You get the feeling that legislators aren’t comfortable about the Game and Fish Commission’s position that all its gas windfall is the commission’s and the commission’s alone. Or maybe I read too much into a recent attorney general opinion request about the legality of requiring payments in lieu of taxes by Game and Fish when it buys private property — as it did recently with gas proceeds — and converts it to tax-free public use.

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