After a session's worth of twist and turns, the long-awaited, hotly contested rent stabilization compromised passed the Senate the morning of the final day of the session.

On Friday night, when this reporter was already volunteering as a fruit fly on the other Capitol Hill, Braun pulled some bureaucratic violence on the Senate floor after an hour of speeches I will now have to suffer through again.

After weeks of backroom wrangling the Washington State Senate and House reconciled their dueling rent stabilization bills, settling on a...