Celebrities inserting themselves into political debates is nothing new. And on occasion it even helps! Case in point comes from the Land of LA, where the Hollywood Reporter informs us that a simple-retweet from A-list actor Josh Brolin has helped a Santa...
Last week Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure making it more difficult to impose an income tax in the state. The measure, Proposition 4, authored by Rep. Jeff Leach (R), asked voters if they supported adding a prohibition against a state...
Democrats who control Colorado’s General Assembly suffered a big defeat last week with the failure of Proposition CC, a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to use revenue surpluses for education and transportation instead of returning...
ME Voters Approve Transportation Funding MAINE voters approved $105 million in bond funding for transportation projects, primarily the overhauling of the state’s roads and bridges. The bond money will be matched by $137 million in federal and...
Democrats picked up two seats in Virginia’s Senate and six seats in the state’s House in last Tuesday’s election, giving them 21-19 and 55-45 majorities in the two chambers, respectively. With Ralph Northam (D) already occupying the...
Republicans appear likely to have picked up a Senate seat and between two and four Assembly seats in New Jersey in last week’s election. Those gains won’t be enough to dislodge Democrats’ hold on the state’s Legislature, given...
Jersey City Voters Affirm Airbnb Regs Voters in Jersey City, NEW JERSEY’s second-largest municipality, overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure upholding new regulations on short-term rentals. Nearly 69 percent of voters supported Municipal Question...
A group of more than two dozen governors pledged last week to continue upholding the tenets of the 2015 Paris climate accord even if President Donald Trump successfully pulls the U.S. out of the agreement. In a statement released by the U.S. Climate...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) unveiled a plan to expand Medicaid in the Peach State, on the condition that new recipients pay monthly premiums and spend at least 80 hours a month working, volunteering, training or attending school. The expansion would be...
Stitt Signs Off on Record Number of Commutations Adhering to recommendations from the state Pardon and Parole Board, OKLAHOMA Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed off on the release of over 450 Sooner State prisoners, the largest single-day commutation in history...
OH Governor Signs HB 189 Responding to the 2017 amusement park accident that killed one and seriously injured seven more, OHIO Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signs HB 189 , which will require Buckeye State officials to adopt an amusement ride classification...
FL Senate Approves SB 172 The FLORIDA Senate Committee on Innovation, Industry, And Technology approves SB 172 , which would block local regulation of over-the-counter drugs and cosmetics, including all sunscreens. The bill, which would grant that...
OH Senate Approves SB 155 & SB 208 The OHIO Senate approves two abortion measures: SB 155 , a bill that would require doctors to inform women about the option to reverse a medication abortion, a claim not supported by the medical establishment...
CA City LA Temporarily Suspends The City of LOS ANGELES temporarily suspends rideshare company Uber’s permit to rent electric scooters and bicycles on city streets and sidewalks. The suspension comes over a dispute between the city and Uber over...
New Names Showcase Flagship Research Solution As November approaches, new signs of the changing season appear every day. The air is a little crisper. The trees are a little more colorful. And here at Nexis® Solutions, another change is taking place—our...
The impending California Consumer Privacy Act and other state data privacy laws have done more than motivate companies to rethink how they manage consumer data; it also has many organizations thinking more than ever about how they manage their cyber insurance...
Eight states have enacted some version of the Data Security Model Law adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in 2017, according to the National Law Review. Three of the states did so in 2018, with the other five enacting...
Last month the Michigan State Administrative Board, controlled by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), made $625 million in transfers within the departmental budgets approved by the state’s Legislature. That action only fueled an effort by Republicans who...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Attorney General Dave Yost (R) met for over three hours last month with attorneys and elected officials from cities and counties across the state seeking damages from drug makers and distributors over the opioid crisis. ...
AK Local Governments to Collect Online Sales Taxes ALASKA cities and boroughs that levy sales taxes have initiated a plan to collect those taxes from online retailers. Under the plan, local governments will join a cooperative agreement creating a statewide...
Pennsylvania’s General Assembly approved legislation last week that will bring the biggest changes to the state’s election laws in decades. The election reform bill, negotiated by Gov. Tom Wolf (D) and leaders of the Republican-controlled...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month in a case stemming from laws Republicans passed after losing control of the state’s government in last November’s election but before Democrats took office in January. Those laws...
New York State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs is backing a proposal to quintuple the number of votes required for a political party to get its gubernatorial candidate on the ballot from 50,000 to 250,000, a threshold that would shut out virtually...
SCOTUS Overturns MI Gerrymandering Case The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling by a three-judge panel in April calling for the redrawing of several MICHIGAN Congressional and legislative districts before the 2020 election on the grounds that...
Calling it “a step in the right direction," California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said the state would closely monitor the NCAA’s decision to move toward allowing college athletes to profit from the use of their likeness, image or name. ...