The term “fake news” is the new normal in today’s landscape, but decisions that fall flat based on poor quality or missing information are nothing new in the business world. While some professionals have a nose for sniffing out details...
In July the 2017 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Business Forum recognized the critical role of business in delivering on the promise of sustainable and inclusive development. In this article, we elaborate on the SDG business case, and how businesses...
In most places bug spray is as much a part of summer as barbecues and swimming pools. Alas, not so in upstate New York, where kids attending woodland summer camps need a doctor’s note to be able to spray themselves with something to keep the skeeters...
In case you doubt that California is the most diverse state in America, as many as 100 Capitol staffers recently came together to create what is believed to be the nation’s first LGBT staff caucus. As Capitol Weekly reports , the group got together...
Washington drivers can breathe easy – nobody is trying to take away their coffee. As the Seattle Times reports , Evergreen State motorists have been up in arms of late over a new distracted driving law that some have interpreted as banning their...
The ongoing saga of Chris Christie vs. The World completed another chapter last week. It all started when the New Jersey governor was making his way through the stands at a Milwaukee Brewers game (Christie’s son works for the Brew Crew) and fans...
Gov. Charlie Baker Signs HB 3680 Gov. Charlie Baker (R) signs HB 3680 , legislation that requires Bay State employers to offer “reasonable accommodations” to pregnant workers and makes it illegal to fire or refuse to hire a worker because...
New York Signs AB 2806 NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs AB 2806 , which adds the act of animal fighting to offenses which allow authorities to obtain an eavesdropping or video surveillance warrant (LONGISLAND.COM). North Carolina Signs HB 128...
New York Signs AB 611 NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs AB 611 , which bans the use of electronic cigarettes and tobacco products on Empire State public school grounds. The law also prohibits e-cigarette use on buses and other vehicles that transport...
Environment In California The CALIFORNIA Supreme Court rules that publicly-owned railroads are not exempt from adhering to the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires officials to consider a project’s environmental impact before...
Maine Overrides A Veto of SB 391 The MAINE House and Senate override a veto by Gov. Paul LePage (R) of SB 391 , which will raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 (PORTLAND PRESS HERALD).
Immigration In Massachusetts The MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Judicial Court rules that Bay State police do not have the legal authority to detain suspects solely to hold them for federal officials. The ruling rejects requests by the federal Immigration and...
Social Policy In South Carolina The SOUTH CAROLINA Supreme Court rules that people in same-sex marriages are covered under the state’s domestic violence laws. The law does not pertain, however, to unmarried same-sex couples (CHARLESTON POST &...
Potpourri In the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upholds a lower court’s ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not have the legal power to strip gray wolves in the Great Lakes Region of their protection under...
Saying he wants to help his fellow governors manage what some are calling the “fourth industrial revolution,” Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) has announced a new initiative aimed at helping state leaders “better prepare for the ongoing...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D)signed comprehensive energy legislation ( HB 589 ) last week intended to boost the Tar Heel State’s growing solar power industry. But Cooper also immediately issued an executive order ( EO No. 11 ) that mitigates...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) proposed legislation last week that would allow Bay State authorities to detain certain unauthorized immigrants at the behest of federal officials. The legislation came in the wake of a recent state Supreme Judicial...
HOGAN PROPOSES NEW TIMETABLE FOR MD EMISSIONS TESTS MARYLAND Gov. Larry Hogan (R) proposed giving Old Line State drivers an extra year before their vehicles would have to undergo an initial emissions inspection. Current law requires the inspection...
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has been quietly working on a campaign to end the way legislative districts are drawn, but is now stepping up his advocacy into a more public campaign intended to try to get the partisanship out of the...
CONGRESSWOMAN JOINS CROWD SEEKING TN GOVERNORSHIP U.S. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), announced this week she will run for governor of TENNESSEE . Black has served as chairwoman of the House Budget Committee, where she has been a strong advocate for cutting...
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) veto of the state’s school funding package has some districts worried about having enough cash to open classroom doors in the fall, and a major ratings agency warning about some school districts’ credit...
Major changes to the state employee pay and benefit package squeaked through the Connecticut Senate this week, with Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman (D) breaking an 18-18 tie vote to advance the measure, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (D) has lauded as vital to reducing...
NEW JERSEY EMPLOYEES TO GET BACK PAY State workers in NEW JERSEY will get back pay for time off they had to take during the state’s government shutdown last month. Gov. Chris Christie (R) signed legislation this week authorizing retroactive pay...
With a GOP plan to fully or partly repeal the Affordable Care Act now dead, Congressional attention has turned to how or if to bolster the individual insurance marketplace. In many states such marketplaces are struggling with both rising premiums and...
After going through more resurrections than Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger, the GOP’s Congressional efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act finally seem to be dead. If so, the question becomes what happens now? While definitive answers are in...