Senate President Lyda Green on Anchorage talk radio Monday questioned the governor's gas line legislation. Later in the day, the Senate passed ethics legislation. Rather than heap praise on Senate leadership, Gov. Sarah Palin heaped a couple of insults. She said she was disappointed that the bill did not include several provisions, and she accused the Senate majority of paying "lip service" to ethics reform. Was the governor just grumpy about the Senate ethics bill, or was she also grumpy at her political and geographic neighbor, Sen. Green, for not endorsing the gas line bill on talk radio. Sources tell us it was both. Perhaps it's another indication that the two Mat-Su politicans are not best friends.

-- Larry Persily, editorial page editor