U.S. Senate Republicans outlined their plan for overhauling the federal tax code last week. And it differs substantially from the plan advancing in the U.S. House, highlighting the competing pressures GOP leaders are facing in their respective chambers...
Across the nation, prison inmates or their families have been suing states for the heat conditions in their un-air-conditioned cells that they say violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. States have argued...
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen from accounts in the Iowa Public Employee’s Retirement System (IPERS) last month, according to a statement from the state’s largest public employee pension fund, which provides pensions to 115,000...
Thirteen states have introduced and three have passed legislation this year dealing with the legalization of sports betting, currently prohibited in all but a handful of states by the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) passed by Congress...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s fall term, which began last month, looks to be a momentous one, with the justices expected to weigh such matters as whether there’s a constitutional limit to partisanship in the drawing of voting districts and whether...
FL REPUBLICANS SEEK TO MAKE IT HARDER TO RAISE TAXES: On a party-line vote, FLORIDA’s GOP-led House Ways & Means Committee approved a proposal that would ask voters next year to pass a constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds supermajority...
#GivingTuesday is just 19 days away, arriving hot on the heels of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Last year, charitable donations increased by 4%, with a total of $390.05 billion being given to charity, and these figures are set to keep growing...
The value of having real-time access to what people are saying about your company is essential to anyone involve in communications. LexisNexis Newsdesk ® delivers just that. Launched in April 2015, Newsdesk is designed to work as a versatile media...
Our series on PESTLE risk monitoring continues with an exploration of the “S”—Socio-cultural—and how it influences supply-chain and third-party risk to global organizations. As organizations become more reliant on complex networks...
It isn’t surprising that Massachusetts companies with large numbers of workers who get their health care coverage through the Bay State’s version of Medicaid might not want that info getting around. Be that as it may, they may be about to...
Until last week most Americans had never heard of George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign advisor who we’re told pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with the Russian government on the campaign’s behalf. Oops. Per...
You would think an attempted hijacker who spent years in a mental institution running for mayor of New York City would draw lots of attention. As the New York Post reports , that’s certainly what Aaron Commey – who in 2000 tried to hijack...
Pennsylvania Governor Signs HB 271 PENNSYLVANIA Gov. Tom Wolf (D) signs HB 271 , which legalizes online poker, online table games, online slots, daily fantasy sports and internet lottery sales in the Keystone State. The law also allows 10 of the state’s...
Wisconsin Senate Approves SB 236 The WISCONSIN Senate approves SB 236 , which would require school districts for the first time to seek competitive bids on contracts of significant dollar value. The measure moves to the Assembly (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL...
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...
Michigan Governor Signs Trio of Bills MICHIGAN Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signs a trio of bills that collectively allow electric bicycles on Wolverine State nature trails. The measures are: HB 4781 , which determines which kinds of electric bicycles can...
New Jersey Department of Health Finalize Rules The NEW JERSEY Department of Health finalizes rules that allow pharmacies without a medical director to apply for a standing prescription to dispense the anti-overdose drug naloxone. The state began allowing...
Michigan Governor Signs HB 4311 MICHIGAN Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signs HB 4311 , which allows surrendering parents’ names to be excluded from the birth certificates of infants surrendered under the state’s Safe Delivery of Newborns Law (MICHIGAN...
Michigan Governor Signs HB 4508 MICHIGAN Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signs HB 4508 , which allows the state to deploy a volunteer team of cybersecurity experts to assist if state agencies are impacted by a cyberattack or a data breach. The volunteer team...
Calling his state “ground zero for the impacts of climate change,” Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) signed off last Tuesday on a two-pronged state action plan aimed at addressing the issue. Walker inked his name to Administrative Order 289...
Two GOP governors have signed executive orders making their states the latest to bar government agencies from doing business with companies that are boycotting Israel. On October 23 rd , Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) signed EO 01.01.2017.25 , which requires...
LEPAGE SIGNS REVISED ME FOOD SOVEREIGNTY LAW : MAINE Gov. Paul LePage (R) signed legislation last week that allows anyone living in or visiting one of 22 designated Pine Tree State communities to make a face-to-face purchase at a farmer’s or...
Just two states - New Jersey and Virginia - will hold general elections on Nov. 7 in which state legislative seats will be contested. Louisiana and Mississippi also hold legislative elections in odd-numbered years but all legislators in those two states...
On Nov. 7 voters in 7 states will consider a total of 22 statewide ballot measures, bringing the count for the year - with measures on the ballot last month in two states - to 27. That continues a downward trend in the number of measures on the ballot...
In 1912 Montana passed a law prohibiting all corporate spending in the state’s elections. The law remained in place for 100 years, until the U.S. Supreme Court declared it to be in conflict with the court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC...