A new pitch for increasing pay for legislators: Appoint a commission to consider it

The old joke around the State Capitol is that legislators get paid “$12,000 a year and all you can eat and drink.”That is a reference to all the free meals — and, OK, maybe a drink or two — dispensed at the almost daily events hosted by lobbying groups during legislative sessions.But in reality, it’s no laughing matter that state senators in Nebraska get paid so little f...