When is a ‘dead’ bill not dead? When vampire grass walks the earth (and there are a few weeks left in the session)

One would think that last Thursday’s death of the so-called GMO grass-seed in a bipartisan rejection in the House the day after the Senate approved it, would have finished the legislation for the year. But there are plans in the Senate to get all-vampire about it and   turn the ban language into a five-year moratorium and run it again in the Senate, where a two-year moratorium was turned down last week by Senate majority Democrats. So the moratorium wasn’t a good idea because Republicans proposed it? Just asking.

To sweeten the pot, in a letter today to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Jim Hagedorn, chairman and CEO of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, today “formally” invited turf scientists in the College of Agriculture at UConn to join a consortium of eight universities studying the development of grass seed “that requires less mowing, less fertilizer, fewer pesticides and less water…”