Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said last week that the GOP is broken and needs to be fixed. If that doesn’t happen, he said, he might not be a Republican much longer. Appearing on the CNN show “State of the Union,” Kasich lamented the...
Speaking to a meeting of Bay State health officials, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) called on Congress to take steps to stabilize the individual health insurance market and act quickly to extend two recently expired programs that fund community...
SANDOVAL DECLARES NV HEALTH EMERGENCY AFTER MASS SHOOTING In the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that saw 59 people killed and more than 500 injured, NEVADA Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) issued an executive order temporarily suspending...
The mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas last week that left 59 people dead has displaced the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando last year, in which 49 people were killed, as the deadliest such attack in modern U.S. history...
After being short-handed for over a year, due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a full-strength U.S. Supreme Court began its fall term last week with a docket full of major cases. They include: Gill v. Whitford , No. 16-1161, in which the court...
After the recount in Florida in the 2000 presidential election with its infamous “hanging chads,” many states and counties, with the aid of federal funding from the Help America Vote Act, replaced their paper-based voting systems with, in...
MI Senate Leader Backs Private Police Plan MICHIGAN Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof (R) has proposed a bill ( SB 594 ) that would authorize private, possibly for-profit police forces with full arrest powers to supplement public law enforcement...
The tax overhaul outlined by President Trump and GOP congressional leaders last month proposed doing away with the federal tax deduction for state and local tax payments to help offset the business and individual tax cuts included in the plan. But congressional...
In May the White House released a framework for President Trump’s promised $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan calling for an outlay of $200 billion in federal funding to “incentivize additional non-Federal funding,” including...
POT LEGALIZATION EXPANDING PUBLIC PAYROLL IN CA With recreational marijuana becoming legal in CALIFORNIA in 2018, the state is in the process of hiring hundreds of new government employees to help oversee the industry, including environmental scientists...
States with higher rates of gun ownership generally have higher gun death rates than those with lower gun ownership rates, according to an analysis of 2013 data from the peer-reviewed journal Injury Prevention and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
The Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, has had more narrow escapes than the legendary Harry Houdini. But although a law created solely by Democrats has amazingly survived in a Republican political landscape, its long-term survival is not yet...
In 1988, a game show contestant named “Patrick Quinn” won $58,000 on “Super Password.” Later it was revealed that “Patrick Quinn” was actually Kerry Dee Ketchum, a real-life fugitive who was wanted in multiple states...
Lower operational costs, enhanced supply chain stability, smoother entry into new markets—the benefits of outsourcing business functions to third parties are undeniable. As the third-party networks that organizations rely on grow larger and more...
If you live in Rhode Island and need a lawyer, you might consider dropping in on the statehouse. That’s because, as the Providence Journal reports , the Ocean State Legislature has so many attorneys on its payroll it could qualify as the state’s...
Congressional Republicans – and millions of other Americans – aren’t the only ones confused by the often conflicting messages emanating from the White House these days. As the Washington Post reports , North Korea is also occasionally...
Texas Rep. Dawnna Dukes is in some hot water, facing misdemeanor corruption charges for giving one of her aides a taxpayer-funded raise for shuttling Dukes’ daughter back and forth to school. But that is hardly the most interesting thing about her...
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...
Business In Wisconsin A WISCONSIN Appeals Court upholds the Badger State’s right-to-work law, which bars unions and employers from requiring that all employees pay fees to join a union, either in membership dues or “fair share” payments...
California Signs SB 557 CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs SB 557 , which allows Golden State schools to donate their cafeteria food leftovers to local food banks and charities (LEXISNEXIS STATE NET).
Health In Massachusetts The MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Judicial Court rules that because the effects of marijuana vary so greatly between individuals, police officers cannot offer an opinion on whether an individual was “high” in court cases...
Social Policy In Indiana A federal court permanently strikes down provisions of an INDIANA law passed last year that would have banned abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. U.S...
With the October 15 signing deadline fast approaching, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is slowly working his way through the annual slew of bills that end up on his desk after the frantic final days of the legislative session come to an end. But while...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed off on a controversial deal granting almost $3 billion in incentives to lure Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn to build a new plant in the Badger State. If Foxconn follows through on its plan to invest $10 billion...
BAKER TO FORM MA TRANSPORTATION TASK FORCE Responding to a business group’s report that called for an independent review of state transportation infrastructure needs, MASSACHUSETTS Gov. Charlie Baker (R) said he will issue an executive order...