Since 2011 Tennessee has dedicated over $200 million to TNInvestco, a program designed to create jobs and profits for taxpayers by allowing private venture funds to invest public money in startup companies. But according to a performance audit from the...
$1.3B Budget Shortfall Expected In CT CONNECTICUT is facing an estimated budget shortfall of $1.3 billion next year, due to a surge in fixed costs, including debt and pension payments. Despite that fact Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) said he is not likely...
Republicans have controlled the Wisconsin Legislature for the last six years straight, but next year they’ll be more dominant than at any time in the last few decades. It looks as though this month’s election will leave them with a 20-12 majority...
On the same day that Alaska voters backed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, they also approved an initiative calling for progressive election reform. The passage of Ballot Measure 1 means that voting-age residents of the state will now automatically...
Western States Ponder Secession Days after the election of Donald Trump as president, two Oregonians submitted a petition for a 2018 ballot initiative providing for OREGON’s secession from the United States. A number of Californians have voiced...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is taking another shot at reviving a program to build affordable apartment housing for low income New York City residents. The deal Cuomo brokered between the 100,000 member Building and Construction Trades Council...
Hickenlooper Pondering Slower Hospital Growth in CO COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) told reporters last week he might propose requiring hospitals seeking to expand to file proof with the state to show there is a need for such growth. At least 35...
Business In Michigan The MICHIGAN Legislature gives final approval to a four-bill package – SBs 995 , 996 , 997 and 998 – that collectively approve testing of autonomous vehicles on a 122-mile stretch of Wolverine State highways. The package...
Donald Trump’s surprising victory last week has roiled households, workplaces and the public square. Supporters are of course elated while opponents are not. That very scenario is playing out in earnest at the University of Virginia, where the Washington...
Speaking of moral dilemmas, New York lawmakers can forget about getting a pay raise any time soon. As the New York Times reports, the state commission on such matters has declined to endorse a proposal to give Empire State pols their first pay hike in...
Guest authored by Helen Brown, president of the Helen Brown Group Originally published via HelenBrownGroup.com Here’s the complaint I hear frequently about wealth screenings, prospect research, and real estate: Knowing what our prospect holds...
The case could certainly be made that no other presidential race in memory or potentially history has received so much media attention—and, let’s face it, felt so much like a reality TV show—as this one. Now that the election is one...
This post was guest written by Brandon Teeple, a junior at Wright State University. The Millennial Generation, those who are born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, have recently become the largest generation in the U.S. They range anywhere from...
Many nonprofits, foundations and universities are readying to participate in Giving Tuesday , a global day of giving celebrated on November 29 this year. A 24-hour social media campaign to elicit end-of-year charitable donations, Giving Tuesday is timed...
Sanctions around the world have changed significantly in the last few months, according to a new eBook by LexisNexis. The eBook looks at how sanctions have changed in eight countries: the U.S., UK, Russia, Iran, Myanmar, Cuba, Democratic People’s...
Uncertainty. There is no better way to describe what lawmakers across the nation will face once gavels come down on new statehouse sessions in January and beyond. While in a normal year the kind of broad gains Republicans made at all levels of government...
It’s not unheard of for TV shows—like Saturday Night Live—or parody news sites—like The Onion—to bend the latest headlines to their will for the sake of comedy. But recently, headlines have trumpeted a disturbing trend: the...
Four states have statewide laws limiting how much local officials have to cooperate with requests from federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants, according to analysis of data from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center by the New York Times...
At the same time that voters throughout the state of California were approving Proposition 64 last month providing for the legalization and taxation of marijuana for recreational use, voters in 37 individual cities and counties in the state were also...
Nebraska’s main business tax incentive program, the Nebraska Advantage Act , spurred 69 businesses in the state to add jobs and boost investment from 2006 to the end of 2014, according to a state audit. That review also showed that businesses that...
AL Approves BP-Backed Bond Sale ALABAMA has approved a plan to use $850 million in oil spill settlement payments from BP to back a bond offering expected to generate $610 million. Those proceeds will be used to repay $400 million in transfers from...
Over 30 mostly Republican-controlled states have passed voting restrictions - including strict voter ID requirements and scaled back early voting periods - in recent years. And although President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t announced any formal plans...
More than 230,000 Oregonians have automatically registered to vote since their state became the first to adopt an automatic voter registration system last year. The automatic registration of those who visited a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office...
Last month Maine voters approved Question 5 , making their state the first to adopt ranked-choice voting. Under that system, instead of voting for just one candidate, voters rank the candidates from first choice to last. If no candidate receives a majority...
Responding to an uptick in hate crimes since the Nov. 8 election, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) recently announced the creation of a special State Police unit to combat those incidents. The governor also announced a legislative effort to expand the Empire...