NV Stadium Special Session NEVADA Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) has called a special session to consider increasing room taxes in Clark County to finance $750 million of a proposed $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas - the potential new home of...
Politics has of late played an outsized role in whether or not a lot of folks have health insurance. But now it appears that our political affiliations could also determine the level of care we get from our doctor. As the Los Angeles Times reports, a...
Social Policy In Oklahoma The OKLAHOMA Supreme Court rules that a 2015 law ( SB 642 ) that would have made it a felony for someone to help a minor obtain an abortion without parental consent is unconstitutional. The court ruled that the law, which...
Earlier this year, CMO.com reported that “89% of companies expect to be competing primarily on customer experience.” One way that companies can tap into customer expectations is through voice-of-the-customer programs. If you’re a customer...
This post was guest written by Brandon Teeple, a junior at Wright State University. What topics do you care about? Is it ever-increasing national budget? Or is it, perhaps, protecting gun rights? Each generation has a particular set of issues that...
The fastest way to a man’s heart, we’re told, is through his stomach. The same can often be said of lawmakers, so with the session winding down to its last hours and her bill to ensure employees stuck with working on Thanksgiving are paid...
California Signs AB 2844 CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs AB 2844 , which bars the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel or other sovereign nations. The law applies to companies that have contracts worth $100,000 or more...
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) joined with former Gov. Jim McGreevey (D) to announce a series of new or expanded programs designed to help ease the Garden State’s ongoing opioid addiction crisis. Those measures include an emergency order issued...
Voter ID laws have drawn a lot of attention in recent years, but “motor voter” laws could have a much bigger impact on elections, given that at least 35 million eligible voters are not registered. “Registration is one of the biggest...
Twenty-one predominantly Republican-governed states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Obama administration rule extending mandatory overtime pay to millions of American workers. The rule, which was finalized in May and takes effect in December...
Twenty-one states have passed laws governing public access to police body camera footage, according to CNN and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. A few of those measures, including North Carolina HB 972 , were signed into law in the last...
One bill that did end up garnering Gov. Jerry Brown’s autograph will soon have folks popping a cork on their favorite vino. Not necessarily to celebrate, mind you. As the Davis Enterprise reports , Brown signed a bill that allows the University...
Crime In Massachusetts The MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Judicial Court orders Bay State courts to consider whether a black person who walks away from a police officer is attempting to avoid the “recurring indignity of being racially profiled”...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) issued an executive order last month ( EO 569 ) that orders his administration by next spring to develop and implement a statewide plan for specific annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. The order directs...
Amid growing concern about the prospect of hackers breaching America’s voting systems, President Obama’s homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco said at a Justice Department event last month that it would be difficult for hackers to actually...
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s (R) economic advisory council is no longer compiling the quarterly review of economic markers handpicked by the administration as an accountability check for its economic policies. “A lot of people found them...
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s dancing days are over. Yes, as the Houston Press reports, Perry last week became the second dancer this season to be voted off the ABC reality dancing show “Dancing With The Stars.” Alas, his demise came...
Gov. Wolf Urges Passing of PA Opioid Measures Citing “a public health crisis the likes of which we have not before seen,” PENNSYLVANIA Gov. Tom Wolf (D) addressed a rare joint session of the legislature last week to urge them to take action...
Back on March 24, Flint, Michigan mayor Karen Weaver served notice that the city might file a lawsuit against the state over the lead contamination of the city’s water supply. Weaver and other city officials reportedly had no immediate plans to...
A law on the books in Kansas requires the state to end each year with a budget balance equal to 7.5 percent of expenditures as a cushion against revenue fluctuations. But the state’s lawmakers often ignore that law. In fact, the state began the...
When Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) recently claimed that “90-plus percent” of those arrested for dealing illegal drugs in the Pine Tree State are black or Hispanic, it sparked a wave of requests from media and others who wanted to see the data...
Federal Appeals Court Blocks OH Inactive Voter Purge The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that OHIO’s purge of inactive voters from its voting rolls violates federal law, reversing a lower court’s decision. The case now returns to...
Welfare Cuts Coming in RI A special legislative committee in RHODE ISLAND tasked with recommending budget cuts is reportedly focusing on public assistance programs like Medicaid and food stamps. The Joint Committee on Government Accountability Transparency...
California Vetoes AB 1594 CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoes AB 1594 , which would have barred all tobacco and e-cigarette products from California State University and community college campuses. Brown said colleges are capable of making their...
California Signs AB 1110 CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs AB 1110 , which requires energy retailers to reveal the greenhouse gas emissions of the products they sell (LEXISNEXIS STATE NET). California Signs AB 2800 Also in CALIFORNIA , Brown...