The way this year began - with a stock market correction that saw the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 indexes all drop more than 10 percent by mid-February followed by an estimate from the Atlanta Federal Reserve that the U.S. economy grew less than 1 percent...
Not too long ago state judicial races, even for state Supreme Court seats, didn’t draw a lot of attention from voters. But that has changed with recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings having opened the floodgates for unlimited campaign spending and special...
With their state’s transportation trust fund projected to run dry by July 1, a bipartisan group of New Jersey senators unveiled a plan last week to pay for $20 billion in transportation projects over the next decade by making sweeping changes to...
Kevin Durant of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder is set to become a free agent soon. As one of the league’s best players, he is for sure gonna cash in big time. But while teams in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or Dallas might be able to offer...
KS GOP Urges Public to Lobby Supreme Court on School Funding The KANSAS House Republican Campaign Committee has taken out billboard-style ads urging citizens to call the state Supreme Court and urge it not to close the state’s schools. The court...
It was just another committee meeting at the California Capitol. Or was it? As the Sacramento Bee reports , a recent joint hearing before a combination of three legislative hearings was supposed to be broadcast live on the California Channel, the same...
In the prospectus for its $550 million bond sale scheduled for June 16, Illinois warned potential buyers for the first time that if it missed a payment - something else it has never done - they might not be able to immediately collect on their investment...
CO Gov Signs HB 1260 COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signs HB 1260 , which doubles the statute of limitations on sexual assault to 20 years (DENVER POST). LA Gov Signs SB 324 LOUISIANA Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signs SB 324 , which requires...
The West Virginia Legislature passed a budget bill in special session ( SB 1013 a ) last week, ending a months-long impasse between lawmakers and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D). That stalemate had come to a head two weeks ago when lawmakers passed and the...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) unveiled a proposal last Wednesday seeking to renegotiate the Bay State’s soon-to-expire Medicaid waiver with the federal government. The proposal, which seeks to extend the current waiver for five years, beginning...
Constitutional Income Tax Cap Advances in NC NORTH CAROLINA’s Senate Finance Committee advanced a proposed constitutional amendment ( SB 817 ) last week that would cap state income taxes at 5.5 percent. If approved by the General Assembly the...
VT Gov Vetoes THEN signs SB 260 VERMONT Gov. Pete Shumlin (D) first vetoes and then signs SB 260 , which calls for local municipalities to receive “substantial deference” when the siting of wind energy projects go before the state Public...
MASSACHUSETTS Gov. Charlie Baker (R) was a busy man last week. In addition to unveiling his Medicaid waiver proposal, he nominated three judges to fill impending vacancies on the Bay State’s Supreme Judicial Court. Baker’s picks - Superior...
CO Gov Signs HB 1423 COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signs HB 1423 , which bars software vendors from selling student-specific data or from using that data to create individual student profiles or for targeted advertising. Vendors will also be...
Gov. Cuomo, Lawmakers Reach Cancer Screening Deal NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and lawmakers reached a deal before the end of session last week to expand access to breast cancer screening by ordering Empire State hospitals to expand hours when mammograms...
NJ Assemble Approves AB 457 The NEW JERSEY Assembly approves AB 457 , which would add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible to be treated with marijuana. It moves to the Senate (NORTHJERSEY.COM). CO Gov Signs HB 1436 ...
CO Gov Signs HB 1391 COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signs HB 1391 , a bill that makes it a deceptive trade practice for a person to provide or offer to provide legal services in an immigration matter if he or she is not a licensed attorney or...
CO Gov Signs SB 150 COLORADO Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signs SB 150 , which amends state law to allow couples in a civil union to marry each other without having to first dissolve the civil union (PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN).
SC Gov Vetoes HB 3440 SOUTH CAROLINA Gov. Nikki Haley (R) vetoes HB 3440 , which would have required moped drivers younger than 21 to wear helmets and all moped drivers wear reflective vests at night (STATE [COLUMBIA]). PA Gov Signs SB 1132 PENNSYLVANIA...
Experience tells us that the news stories that earn the biggest headlines and top-of-the-hour broadcast coverage generally focus on the negative when it comes to anti-bribery and corruption compliance. The off-shore law firm that helps clients shield...
California Senate candidate Henry Stern is no stranger to celebrity – his dad is Hollywood actor Daniel Stern, who most remember as the narrator of the Wonder Years and one of the bad guys in the movie Home Alone. So it’s no shock he got a...
It wasn’t long after the Supreme Court ruling on Miranda v. Arizona that Dragnet’s Sargent Joe Friday began apprising suspects of their rights in nearly every episode. In 2000, the words of the Miranda warning appeared on screens small and...
CA Approves AB 1676 The CALIFORNIA Assembly approves AB 1676 , which bars employers from asking job applicants for their salary histories. The measure is now in the Senate (LEXISNEXIS STATE NET). PA Gov Signs HB 1690 PENNSYLVANIA Gov. Tom Wolf...
Citing an ongoing scourge of overdose deaths across the Northeast, all six New England state governors pledged last week to do more to combat the opioid abuse in their states and throughout the region. Gathered at a three-day symposium at Harvard...
Every state does periodic housekeeping on its voter rolls to keep them up to date. But only a few eliminate voters just for voting infrequently. And none of them is likely to have more of an impact on this year’s presidential election than Ohio...