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Daniel C. Vock (Stateline)
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
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Chicago, IL, USA. Railroads, shippers and governments disagree all the time about transportation issues. But they are united on one point: Something has to be done about costly delays in getting trains through Chicago.
It is an all-too-common experience. An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Michigan, just eight miles from its final stop at Chicago’s downtown Union Station, has to idle for 15 minutes at a signal tower on the South Side.
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 John Gramlich (Stateline) Friday, 27 May 2011 Atlanta, GA, USA. A little-noticed new law in Georgia amounts to a homework assignment for the state’s 34,000 lawyers and judges: learn a new set of courtroom procedures by the end of next year.
Georgia lawmakers got plenty of attention this year arguing over the state budget and whether to crack down on illegal immigration. But another noteworthy event — an overhaul of the trial rules followed by lawyers and judges in every state courthouse — attracted surprisingly little notice.
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Pamela M. Prah (Stateline) Wednesday, 25 May 2011 Jefferson City, MO, USA. Animal welfare activists won a victory at the polls last November. They say some of that victory has already been taken away by the legislature.
In Missouri, until this year, it was legal to put a full-grown dog in a cage the size of a dishwasher, never let it out for exercise, and leave it there for life. It’s still legal in many states.
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Daniel C. Vock (Stateline) Thursday, 12 May 2011 Olympia, WA, USA. A new study finds wide variation in how well states are keeping track of their transportation performance. Safety is the area in which they do the best job.
When Washington State transportation officials looked at highway crash data seven years ago, they were struck by how many accidents could be prevented with a relatively cheap improvement to their roads.
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Pamela M. Prah (Stateline) Sunday, 08 May 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Phone companies think now is the time to end regulation of the dwindling number of traditional landline phones. Some states wonder if they should drop controls drawn up for a different technological era. They don’t regulate wireless; should they throw away the obsolete rule book?
Critics say doing that would lead to higher rates, especially for seniors and those who live in rural areas where cell phone service can be erratic.
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Josh Goodman (Stateline) Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Atlanta, GA, USA. The Census Bureau’s official count for 2010 is dramatically lower in many urban areas than the estimates the Bureau had been providing year-by-year. We may never know which version is closer to reality.
Atlanta thought its big story for the last decade had been one of urban renaissance. The U.S. Census Bureau had told the city as much. In 2000, according to the decennial census count, Atlanta had 416,000 people. In the Bureau’s estimate for July 1, 2009, it was up to 540,0
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 Josh Goodman (Stateline) Friday, 15 April 2011 Cowlitz County, WA, USA. There’s a huge demand for coal in right now in Asia, and states in the American West have plenty of it. But more use of coal anywhere in the world adds to greenhouse gas emissions. One state is arguing over whether to treat... |
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 David Combs (Stateline) Friday, 08 April 2011 Washington, DC, USA. After steadily inching upward, the average pay for states’ chief executives slid a bit in 2010. A big pay cut in California offset a big raise in Tennessee and modest pay increases in a few other states.
Just like American wor... |
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 Melissa Maynard (Stateline) Thursday, 31 March 2011 Lansing, MI, USA. State-appointed emergency managers move into depressed local jurisdictions with the power to abrogate labor contracts and even break up local governments if deemed necessary for community survival.
Amid all the pleas being expresse... |
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 Daniel C. Vock (Stateline) Saturday, 26 March 2011 Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Business leaders and the Mormon Church helped one of the nation’s most conservative states enact a compromise immigration package.
Less than a year ago, Utah business leaders worried that their state would follow in Arizon... |
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 08 March 2011 Washington, DC, USA. A few years ago, the time for creating a large-scale cellulose energy industry seemed about to arrive but it hasn’t arrived.
“When people think of biofuel and ethanol, they think of corn and Iowa,” Sonny Perdue said four y... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 04 March 2011 Richmond, VA, USA. For the past decade, drivers in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia could count on two types of gridlock: the traffic kind on the region’s highways and the political kind in the state legislature over how to deal with it.
Both ha... |
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Josh Goodman (Stateline) Thursday, 24 February 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Newly elected Republicans — and some Democrats — have made rethinking regulations a top priority.
That has environmentalists and consumer advocates nervous.
Business groups have long been asking governors for a reprieve fro... |
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Stateline Staff Friday, 18 February 2011 Washington, DC, USA. In yet another tough budget year, the nation's governors are generally setting a course for contracting the ambitions and role of state government.
For many states, 2011 is the most trying budget year of a fiscal crisis now in i... |
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TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 08 February 2011 Washington, DC, USA. Last week, with little fanfare, the Virginia House of Delegates approved a truly radical piece of legislation. It passed a “Repeal Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution which would give the states veto power over any enactment ... |
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John Gramlich (Stateline) Wednesday, 02 February 2011 Boston, MA, USA. Who is qualified to decide whether inmates stay in prison or walk free? A murder by a recent parolee in Massachusetts — and the subsequent resignation of the entire state parole board that released him — is calling attention to t... |
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 Daniel C. Vock (Stateline) Monday, 31 January 2011 Sacramento, CA, USA. California’s new governor has an ambitious plan to turn more responsibility back to the local level. But the locals worry they won’t be given enough money to do the job.
On his first day in office, California Governor Jerry ... |
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 John Gramlich (Stateline) Saturday, 22 January 2011 Tucson, AZ, USA. For Patrick Hope, a former congressional staffer who is now a state representative in Virginia, one of the biggest differences between working at the U.S. Capitol and working at the statehouse in Richmond became apparent shortly afte... |
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