On April 5th, Jayme Hill, a Tacoma area mountain biker, took a bad crash on Beacon Hill - Spokane's local zone - resulting in several broken vertebrae, 16 broken ribs, broken scapula, and sternum.

A new day is dawning on Beacon Hill. Maybe. After a year of blowback against business as usual at the State House — most powerfully in a yearlong Globe investigative series — legislative ...