State, Federal Lawmakers Consider Forgiving Farmers’ Student Debt

State, Federal Lawmakers Consider Forgiving Farmers’ Student Debt: Only about 6 percent of American farmers are under the age of 35, while more than 62 percent are over 55, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2012 Census of Agriculture...

AK Budget Crisis Comes Down to Wire

According to Alaska Sen. President Kevin Meyer (R), he and his fellow lawmakers know “we need to do something and we need to do something major” about the state budget. The global collapse of oil prices has left the state with a multibillion...

Budgets In Brief - April 18 2016

NE Legislature Passes LB960 - Infrastructure Bank Bill NEBRASKA lawmakers approved a bill ( LB 960 ) allowing the state to use $400 million over the next 17 years from the gas tax increase approved by the Legislature last year and $50 million from...

WY, CO Move Opposite Directions With Female Representation

Wyoming, the Equality State, was the first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote and the first state to elect a female governor. But only 13 percent of its current state lawmakers are women, the lowest rate of any state in the country, according...

ACLU Sues OH Sec of State Over Voter Rolls

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jon Husted (R), alleging he is violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by removing from the voter rolls tens of thousands of voters who haven’t...