CA Federal Appeals Court Ruled A federal appeals court in CALIFORNIA rules that the ridesharing company Uber can force its drivers into individual arbitration over pay and benefit disputes, voiding an effort by thousands of drivers to join in a class...
Getting your first driver’s license is one of the great moments in life for most teens. And this being 2018, that means taking a selfie with their new license and posting it online. Alas, also because this is 2018 that opens the door to identity...
If you went online to take a look at a new news publication called the Free Telegraph and thought, “gee, they sure think highly of Republican governors,” you aren’t imagining things. The Free Telegraph does love itself some Reep govs...
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed almost a dozen immigration-related bills last week, including a so-called “sanctuary state” measure ( SB 54 ) that will make the Golden State the only one to significantly limit how much local law enforcement...
Special Session in TN to Remove Lawmakers Up In Air Petitions to convene an extraordinary legislative session in TENNESSEE on Aug. 15 to expel state Reps. Jeremy Durham (R), accused of engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct with 22 women, and Joe...
Cheating isn’t the only behavioral vice Old Dominion lawmakers aren’t ready to let slide. As reported by the Galax Gazette, a House subcommittee last week rejected a proposal to get rid of a law making public cursing a Class 4 misdemeanor...
A federal judge who has been weighing a challenge to Wisconsin’s Voter ID law harshly criticized state officials at a hearing last week for failing to provide DMV workers adequate training about the proper procedures for obtaining alternative voting...
Energy in MA The MASSACHUSETTS House and Senate fail to reach agreement on legislation to raise the cap on the amount of net solar metering credits allowed in a particular utility’s system. Each chamber passed legislation of its own (HB 3857...
Vermont Impose Statewide Limits Lawmakers in VERMONT impose new statewide limits on wind power that are meant to prevent sound from disturbing neighbors' health and sleep. The new rules limit noise from large wind projects to 42 dBA during the...
CA Governor signs SB 100 Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs SB 100 , which requires that all retail electricity sold in the state be carbon-free by 2045. The Golden State joins HAWAII as the only states with a 100 percent carbon-free mandate (SACRAMENTO BEE...
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Husted, Ohio Secretary of State v. A. Philip Randolph Institute et al last week giving Ohio and other states the go ahead to remove inactive voters from their voter rolls. While all states have procedures...
WALKER SIGNS AK RAPE KIT BILL Saying the Last Frontier has over 3,500 untested rape kits awaiting processing, ALASKA Gov. Bill Walker (I) signed a bill that requires local police to report to the state annually the number of untested sexual assault...
Texas lawmakers are expected to have an extra $9 billion to $12 billion to spend this session. And with Republicans having expanded their majorities in both chambers of the Legislature in November, many had been predicting big tax cuts were on the way...
The MICHIGAN Senate endorses HB 6074, legislation that would codify that athletes at Wolverine State public colleges and universities are not school employees and therefore not eligible to form a union. The measure moves to Gov. Rick Snyder (R) for review...
A bill with bipartisan support in the ARIZONA Senate would modify the state’s open records law to allow school boards, city councils and other government officials to talk out of the public eye. Sen. Sylvia Allen (R), who introduced the bill, said...
The NORTH DAKOTA House Judiciary Committee rejects HB 1435, a bill that would have imposed a $500 fine on repeat violators of North Dakota’s open records and open meetings laws (GRAND FORKS HERALD). -- Compiled by RICH EHISEN
Since-departed Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens signed so-called “revenge porn” legislation last week, which makes it a crime to post naked or sexually explicit pics or video of someone without their consent. Great! That essentially makes the Show...
Since state primary elections tend to be dominated by each party’s most fervent followers, candidates tailor their pre-primary positions more to those extremes than they would in a general election. And to be real, some of those extremes can be...
The confirmation hearing for U.S. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, isn’t expected to begin until at least late August. But Kavanaugh’s rulings in a couple of...
HI Governor Vetoes SB 2524 HAWAII Gov. David Ige (D) vetoes SB 2524 , which would have required land owners in agricultural or preservation zones who subdivide their land for condominiums to provide public notice no later than ninety days after the...
If this political year hasn’t already been weird enough for you, try this on for size: a Virginia Congressional candidate is denying his interest in legendary forest creature Bigfoot is sexual in nature. Yes, as Vox reports , candidate Denver Riggleman...
The point of this column is to poke fun at the odd, pretentious or absurd things that happen in politics. But this week we will be straight for just a moment to honor the untimely passing of California Gov. Jerry Brown’s esteemed chief of staff...
STATES CHALLENGE CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION: At least a dozen states have filed suit to block the Trump administration from adding a question to the 2020 Census asking about citizenship status. The Trump administration says the question is necessary...
For the last few years, California has held its primary elections in June, which, in 2016, was after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had already become their respective parties’ presumptive nominees. Under a bill ( SB 568 ) signed by Gov. Jerry...
Warren, Michigan Mayor Jim Fouts likes to say he is available to the constituents of his Detroit suburb around the clock. Well, maybe not so much. As the AP reports , Fouts recently came under some heat for blowing off a constituent who tried to talk...