PROVIDENCE — State lawmakers wrapped up business for the year last night after a rare Saturday session in which they cracked down on teenage drinking, whizzed through an eleventh-hour hotel tax subsidy and rejected the last surviving immigration bill.

Eric Steckling and Leslie Picker, hosts of The Daily Illini's live election show, interview Howbowda Bagel owners about how the economy has changed their business.

Cesar L. Alvarez has practiced corporate law in Miami through 35 years and five national recessions. He has seen the energy crisis of the 1970s, the rampant inflation of the late '70s and early '80s, and the savings-and-loan failures of the early '90s.

In 15 months, two dueling business coalitions have spent $4.3 million lobbying on legislation that calls for the biggest changes in United States patent law in more than 50 years.

The glow from a different type of fireworks may be a bit dimmer this Fourth of July. CBS 2's Northwest Indiana Bureau Chief Pamela Jones reports that the economy is changing plans for holiday pyrotechnics.