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( Nation / Politics )
Denver, CO, USA. This has been, in many places, the year of the political newcomer, the year that voters, aglow with Tea Party fervor, have cast out incumbents and elected a new crop of candidates who could boast of their inexperience.
But there a
09-10-10
Word count: 168
( Nation / Politics )
San Quentin, CA, USA. California’s next attorney general will have a full plate.
He or she will have to deal with a federal court challenge on prison overcrowding, a continuing battle over gay marriage, how to proceed if a marijuana-legalization
09-09-10
Word count: 145
( Nation / Workplace )
Los Angeles, CA, USA. The recession has been taking its toll on national, state and local unionization rates, says the UCLA annual report on organized labor. Following an uptick last year, unionization rates fell between July 1, 2009, and June 30,
09-08-10
Word count: 191
( Nation / Politics )
East Lansing, MI, USA. There is something beyond plain old ignorance that motivates many Americans to believe President Obama is a Muslim and John McCain is senile, according to a study of smear campaigns.
A Pew Research Center poll conducted in A
09-07-10
Word count: 141
( Nation / Politics )
Topeka, KS, USA. Besides Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach may be the most visible supporter of Arizona’s recent law to discourage illegal immigration.
With a sterling resume and telegenic looks, Kobach has defen
09-05-10
Word count: 83
( Nation / Workplace )
Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is ramping up pressure on the Obama administration over the BP oil spill — but not in the way that many people might expect.
Jindal is demanding that deepwater drilling, the process that resu
09-04-10
Word count: 119
( Nation / Politics )
Washington, DC, USA. Charlie Baker is a Republican health care executive who hopes to unseat Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this November, in part with a plan he cleverly calls “Baker’s dozen.
”It is 13 ways to save taxpayers well ov
09-03-10
Word count: 166
( Nation / Politics )
New Orleans, LA, USA. It’s certainly no secret that the oil industry remains deeply embedded in Louisiana culture.
Not only does it employ tens of thousands of people, but it is the economic engine state leaders depend on as they struggle to rec
09-01-10
Word count: 170
( Nation / Workplace )
Washington, DC, USA. A year after suffering record investment losses, many of the nation’s largest public pension plans report double-digit percentage budget gains for the year that ended June 30. Although the improved returns in fiscal 2010 did
08-31-10
Word count: 102
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. For the people who hold elections in West Virginia, the passing of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd in June was upsetting in more ways than one. West Virginia had already held its primary election in May. So the special primary to p
08-29-10
Word count: 156
( Nation / Politics )
Atlanta, GA, USA. In his campaign to become Georgia’s next governor, Roy Barnes is relying on an unusual combination of personal attributes: competence and contrition.
The competence comes from the fact that Barnes has held the office before, fr
08-27-10
Word count: 156
( Nation / Politics )
Seattle, WA, USA. Washington State is one of nine states without a state income tax. Bill Gates Sr., the father of the Microsoft founder, wants to change that. Gates is lending his high-profile name and influence to a ballot measure that would tax
08-24-10
Word count: 96
( Nation / Politics )
Concord, NH, USA. Following a similar move by Republicans earlier this month, national Democrats agreed over the weekend to push back their primary calendar for the 2012 presidential election cycle while still keeping Iowa and New Hampshire in thei
08-24-10
Word count: 94
( Nation / Politics )
Des Moines, IA, USA. From beyond Iowa’s borders, it may be hard to understand why this state’s first-term governor, Democrat Chet Culver, is fighting for his political life.
Iowa’s budget is balanced, with reserve funds to spare. With the ex
08-21-10
Word count: 207
( Nation / Politics )
Washington, DC, USA. This week, President Barack Obama has been flying around the country, rallying Democrats to vote for their party’s nominees for governor in Wisconsin and Ohio. At both stops, top Democrats have been all too happy to appear on
08-20-10
Word count: 165
( Nation / Finance )
Sacramento, CA, USA. The Legislative Analyst’s Office in California has been described as the conscience of the Capitol.
Or, as one longtime capitol columnist so colorfully put it, “the skunk that ruins the budget garden party the governor and
08-20-10
Word count: 134
( Nation / Politics )
Provo, UT, USA. A down economy usually spells trouble for incumbents, but a new study shows that six Republicans up for re-election this year caught a break when John McCain lost the last presidential election.
The analysis found that some voters
08-19-10
Word count: 171
( Nation / Politics )
College Station, TX, USA. A longitudinal study in the Social Science Quarterly analyzes suicide rates at a state level from 1981-2005 and determines that presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates among voters. This article is
08-19-10
Word count: 170
( Nation / Workplace )
Cincinnati, OH, USA. New research examines how night shifts and rotating work schedules are affecting the state of the marital union.
Taking care of business is becoming an ever-growing, 24/7 challenge for the American worker. “Although much res
08-18-10
Word count: 116
( Nation / Government )
Atlanta, GA, USA. Volunteering in state parks has long been a staple of the Boy Scouts experience. But in Georgia this year, as the Boy Scouts celebrate their 100th anniversary by building bridges and park benches, maintaining trails and cleaning u
08-18-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Government )
Des Moines, IA, USA. For a few months next year, Ed Cook, a lawyer with the Iowa General Assembly’s bill-writing agency, will turn his attention from drafting legislation to drawing maps.
Cook and a handful of his colleagues will hole themselves
08-17-10
Word count: 145
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. North Shore Community College, located outside Boston, joined the glitzy side of the green-building trend last November when it broke ground on the first state-owned “zero net energy” building in Massachusetts. The 58,000-s
08-15-10
Word count: 147
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. When Martin O’Malley became Maryland’s governor in 2007, one of his first moves was to double the number of cameras used to spy on cars. The cameras, stationed at toll booths and parking garages and mounted on police cars,
08-14-10
Word count: 186
( Nation / Politics )
Denver, CO, USA. At the end of a topsy-turvy Republican primary campaign for Colorado governor, Dan Maes ended up on top by a slim margin. But now that the dust is settling from Tuesday's contest, Maes has found few new fans in the party that just
08-13-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Finance )
Salem, OR, USA. Long before the Tea Party became the national symbol for lower taxes, Oregon voters told their government to keep its hands off their money. The state is one of five without a sales tax because residents voted nine times over the ye
08-12-10
Word count: 209
( Nation / Workplace )
Washington, DC, USA. State legislators are beginning to challenge one of the ironclad tenets of public pension policy: that states cannot legally reduce pension benefits for current and future retirees.
Lawmakers in Colorado, Minnesota and South D
08-11-10
Word count: 171
( Nation / Finance )
Sacramento, CA, USA. California’s Democratic and Republican parties both held mock bake sales last month at the Capitol to protest each other’s “half-baked” budget ideas for plugging a $19 billion deficit for the year that began July 1 with
08-08-10
Word count: 156
( Nation / Politics )
Lincoln, NE, USA. When a county's residents are carved into separate districts simply to maintain that numerical parity, many end up struggling at the ballot box, a new study finds.
The age-old practice of dividing congressional districts evenly b
08-07-10
Word count: 183
( Nation / Finance )
Madison, WI, USA. Wisconsin lawmakers grimly looked ahead to their two-year state budget early last year as a projected $5.7 billion deficit ballooned to $6.6 billion. Every state program was on the chopping block, but Medicaid, the health insuranc
08-06-10
Word count: 166
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. State officials in the United States breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday (Aug. 4) when a $26 billion aid package for the states cleared a key procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate. The measure is likely to become law
08-06-10
Word count: 153
( Nation / Workplace )
Washington, DC, USA. When Pennsylvania officials met earlier this year with business and labor leaders to fix the state’s depleted unemployment insurance trust fund, they thought they’d be able to make progress. Since March of 2009, the state h
08-05-10
Word count: 127
( Nation / Workplace )
Washington DC, USA. In 2003, a now-defunct textile company called Pillowtex closed its plant in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Pillowtex was the town’s biggest employer by far, and most of the 4,800 workers who lost their jobs had little education a
08-04-10
Word count: 160
( Nation / Government )
Trenton, NJ, USA. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission makes a compelling case about why it is important for the state’s drivers to have their cars inspected for safety every two years.
“Even the most conscientious person behind the wheel c
08-04-10
Word count: 190
( Nation / Politics )
St. Paul, MN, USA. The last time a Democratic presidential candidate lost Minnesota was during the 1972 Nixon landslide.
Yet despite this uninterrupted tide of blue on electoral-college maps, it’s been 24 years since a Democrat has won Minneso
08-03-10
Word count: 146
( Nation / Workplace )
Washington, DC, USA. When Missouri passed major pension reform legislation last week, lawmakers called it a difficult but necessary step for a state that — like many others — can no longer afford to provide the same level of retirement benefits
08-01-10
Word count: 1388
( Nation / Politics )
Washington, DC, VA, USA. Many polls have tried to find out exactly how the public feels about the new federal health care law.
One of the latest — a Kaiser Family Foundation survey released earlier this week — found that the Obama administra
07-31-10
Word count: 138
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. Anyone making a long drive through New Mexico next year may want to plan bathroom breaks strategically. State officials are considering closing nearly half of the state’s 32 highway rest stops, in a move that could save the s
07-30-10
Word count: 142
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. After enduring two successive years of crippling budget deficits, American states may have slightly better times ahead, according to a new report issued by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Nearly every US s
07-29-10
Word count: 170
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. Starting late this week through mid-August, 16 states will kick off an event that has become a ritual of back-to-school season. They will temporarily suspend sales taxes on pens, pencils, binders and bookbags, as well as modera
07-28-10
Word count: 163
( Nation / Workplace )
Fontainebleau, France. Getting angry might help you get your way if you're negotiating with European Americans, but watch out — in negotiations with East Asians, getting angry may actually hurt your cause.
That's the conclusion of a new study on
07-27-10
Word count: 119
( Nation / Government )
Washington, DC, USA. California may be the poster child of state fiscal problems, but it pays legislators far more than any other state, according to a new survey of lawmakers’ compensation by the Illinois Policy Institute.
The survey found that
07-26-10
Word count: 146
( Nation / Politics )
Washingron, DC, USA. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox filed a legal brief in federal court last week, defending Arizona’s new immigration law from an Obama administration lawsuit. Arizona and other states, Cox wrote, have the right to secure th
07-25-10
Word count: 159
( Nation / Finance )
Little Rock, AR, USA. The Arkansas Department of Higher Education is accustomed to fielding a few thousand applications for the state’s college scholarship programs.
But this year, the office has been swamped with about 55,000 applications, almo
07-24-10
Word count: 197
( Nation / Finance )
Washington, DC, USA. Americans are smoking less and less. That’s good news for public health, but it creates an ironically nasty side effect for many state budgets. They have grown dependent on an annual stream of money from tobacco companies, an
07-23-10
Word count: 153
( Nation / Politics )
Lancaster, PA, USA. If the Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak Pennsylvania Senate race was a movie, it would be a cinch for an Academy Award nomination.
It's an electoral show that has everything: two controversial, compelling opponents; crucial national sig
07-22-10
Word count: 109
( Nation / Finance )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Pennsylvania sent a warning shot across New Jersey’s bow on Sunday (July 18), opening Las Vegas-style table games at a trio of casinos not far from the states’ shared border. The move — combined with the earlier opening of t
07-22-10
Word count: 176
( Nation / Politics )
Washington, DC, USA. The Denver Post delivered a serious blow to the Colorado gubernatorial campaign of Republican Scott McInnis last week, breaking news that the former congressman allegedly plagiarized large portions of essays that a foundation p
07-20-10
Word count: 122
( Nation / Workplace )
Raleigh, NC, USA. New research shows that an increase in manual and professional business practices such as outsourcing, hiring temporary workers and focusing on project-based teams is having a detrimental effect on workers and likely poses long-te
07-17-10
Word count: 173
( Nation / Government )
Boston, MA, USA. Millions of acres in the western U.S. are owned by states that then lease them to cattle ranchers to generate revenue for schools. “School sections,” as the federal Bureau of Land Management calls them, were set aside by acts o
07-17-10
Word count: 189
( Nation / Government )
Sacramento, CA, USA. Arnold Schwarzenegger barely had time to unpack the boxes in his California gubernatorial office before he began promising to destroy the bureaucratic baggage of state government.
Chosen in a 2003 special election, Schwarzeneg
07-16-10
Word count: 156
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