Dayton Out of Hospital MINNESOTA Gov. Mark Dayton (D) was briefly hospitalized last week after fainting at a public event. The 69-year-old Dayton, who also underwent elective back surgery last December, was released after one day. Doctors believe he...
NC Voter ID Trial Over Attorneys on both sides of the federal court case over NORTH CAROLINA’s 2013 voter ID law that began last month presented closing arguments last week. It isn’t clear when U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder will...
TX Planning $1.3B in Transportation Projects The TEXAS Transportation Commission unveiled a plan last month calling for $1.3 billion in roadway projects to reduce traffic congestion around the state's five largest cities: Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth...
Iowa isn’t in the media spotlight often, but when it is … watch out! On Monday, Iowans headed out to high school gymnasiums, private homes and other venues to participate in the first primary event of this long presidential election season...
A whopping 84 GOP freshmen were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, many of them part of the historic Tea Party wave that promised to change how things were done in stodgy old, gridlocked D.C. Well, a little over five years down the...
Environment in CA The U.S. Department of Interior agrees to stop approving oil and gas permits for drilling that uses hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, off the coast of CALIFORNIA until further study determines the practice is safe. The agreement...
The ILLINOIS Department of Health rejects a recommendation from the state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board to add eight conditions — including autism, irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, osteoarthritis and several pain-related...
The GEORGIA Supreme Court rejects an appeal to allow unauthorized immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Peach State colleges and universities. The court said state law grants the Georgia Board of Regents immunity from such suits. Plaintiffs said...
Social Policy in CO The COLORADO Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs rejects SB 25, so-called ‘death with dignity” legislation that would have allowed doctors to prescribe drugs to terminally ill patients that help...
The NEW MEXICO House approves HB 29, which would allow local communities to impose curfews on teenagers under age 16. The measure moves to the Senate (KRQE.COM [ALBUQUERQUE]). -- Compiled by RICH EHISEN
This Sunday, football fans will be gathering—at the stadium as well as in living rooms and sports bars across the country—to watch the Super Bowl. And it’s not just the sports fans who will tune in. Despite the fact that many consumers...
Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Bio-Technology—all of these industries face great challenges when it comes to proactively mitigating risk. When PwC interviewed Horizon Pharma president and CEO Timothy P. Walbert for its annual CEO Survey, Walbert...
Poor Alice. She followed a white rabbit (in a waistcoat, no less) down a hole and finds herself lost. For some reason, the story reminds me of research on the open Web. It begins with a question—usually from your boss—like, “How can...
You have to hand it to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: he’s pretty hip for a 63-year-old. As the Colorado Springs Gazette reports , the gov often referred to as “Hick” took some time for levity during his recent State of the State address...
Business in WV The WEST VIRGINIA Senate approves SB 1, so-called “right-to-work” legislation that would allow employees in unionized workplaces to opt out of paying union dues while still requiring a union to represent all workers. The...
Saying it was time to address the “unintended consequences” of the state’s determinate sentencing law, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) proposed a measure for the November ballot that would allow non-violent offenders a better chance...
North Carolina’s 2013 voter ID law returned to federal court last week in a case that could have ramifications across the country. The law - passed by the state’s GOP-led General Assembly six weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Shelby County...
Days before last Christmas - and six months after the start of the current fiscal year - Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature sent Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf a $30.26 billion state budget. Wolf signed $23.39 billion of that spending plan...
Three of the seven states with the most gun deaths per 100,000 residents -- Alaska, Mississippi and Wyoming -- are also among the seven states with the most lenient gun laws, according to analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Hard as it might be to fathom in the year 2016, adultery is still illegal in over a dozen states. This includes Virginia, where the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that lawmakers last week killed legislation to decriminalize infidelity. The bill’s...
For the last couple of decades, supporters of tighter firearm restrictions have been outgunned in Congress by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. But a major influx of cash is making the battle over guns more of a fight in the...
Crime & Punishment in LA & PA The Supreme Court of the United States rules that people sentenced to life in prison as juveniles should be allowed to petition for a review of their sentence in order to seek parole. The High Court ruled that...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) unveiled a plan last Thursday to spend almost $918 million in state funds over the next five years on economic development, housing and job training in the Bay State. He will further seek to bolster the state’s...
The Pennsylvania Senate gave preliminary approval last week to change the state’s Constitution to reduce the size of the House from 203 seats to 151. The House passed a resolution last May allowing that change. But while the Senate embraced the...
Taking its cue from crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules in October that will allow privately owned businesses to raise up to $1 million a year from private investors, instead...