Big budget cuts expected in LA LOUISIANA is facing over $600 million in mid-year budget cuts - likely to higher education, hospitals that treat the poor and uninsured, and services for those with disabilities - in spite of passing over $1.5 billion...
The holidays may be the season of goodwill, but companies must beware that it also brings a heightened risk of financial crime. These risks include bribery to secure more sales in the busy Holiday period, bribery masked as hospitality, and unethical sourcing...
Coordinating a global PR strategy can sometimes seem like a Sisyphean struggle. When cornerstone ideas of your company's (or client's) brand don't cross international borders, there's a temptation to either limit your reach or cook up...
Lawyers generally have a long list of dos and don’ts in the course of their work. One that would seem to be obvious in any such a compilation would be to not have sex with the clients they represent. Obvious everywhere, that is, except California...
Massachusetts Approves SB 2473 The MASSACHUSETTS House and Senate each gives final approval to SB 2473 , which would impose new safety requirements on so-called “duck boats,” amphibious sight-seeing vehicles commonly used for tourist excursions...
Responding to an uptick in hate crimes since the Nov. 8 election, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) recently announced the creation of a special State Police unit to combat those incidents. The governor also announced a legislative effort to expand the Empire...
Over 30 mostly Republican-controlled states have passed voting restrictions - including strict voter ID requirements and scaled back early voting periods - in recent years. And although President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t announced any formal plans...
At the same time that voters throughout the state of California were approving Proposition 64 last month providing for the legalization and taxation of marijuana for recreational use, voters in 37 individual cities and counties in the state were also...
Four states have statewide laws limiting how much local officials have to cooperate with requests from federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants, according to analysis of data from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center by the New York Times...
It’s not unheard of for TV shows—like Saturday Night Live—or parody news sites—like The Onion—to bend the latest headlines to their will for the sake of comedy. But recently, headlines have trumpeted a disturbing trend: the...
Uncertainty. There is no better way to describe what lawmakers across the nation will face once gavels come down on new statehouse sessions in January and beyond. While in a normal year the kind of broad gains Republicans made at all levels of government...
New York Approves SB 8117 NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo approves SB 8117 , which requires that sexual offense evidence, or rape kits, are processed in a timely manner. The law also requires kits to be tracked from the originating police agency to forensic...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s (D) 2017 budget proposal includes a plan to divert $16.3 million in annual marijuana tax revenues to help pay for a trio of new programs intended to fight homelessness in the Centennial State. The governor’s...
More than 230,000 Oregonians have automatically registered to vote since their state became the first to adopt an automatic voter registration system last year. The automatic registration of those who visited a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office...
Nebraska’s main business tax incentive program, the Nebraska Advantage Act , spurred 69 businesses in the state to add jobs and boost investment from 2006 to the end of 2014, according to a state audit. That review also showed that businesses that...
Massachusetts Approves HB 2319 The MASSACHUSETTS House and Senate give final approval to HB 2319 , which would exempt custodians, cafeteria employees and other non-teaching workers from a law that gives principals and superintendents responsibility...
Gov. Kasich Urges Reduced Medical Licensing Boards OHIO Gov. John Kasich (R) and lawmakers are working on a plan to consolidate the Buckeye State’s multiple medical licensing boards. Legislation currently under consideration in the General Assembly...
Last month Maine voters approved Question 5 , making their state the first to adopt ranked-choice voting. Under that system, instead of voting for just one candidate, voters rank the candidates from first choice to last. If no candidate receives a majority...
AL Approves BP-Backed Bond Sale ALABAMA has approved a plan to use $850 million in oil spill settlement payments from BP to back a bond offering expected to generate $610 million. Those proceeds will be used to repay $400 million in transfers from...
New York Signs AB 10264 NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs AB 10264 , a measure to establish a state ocean acidification task force, which will be tasked with identifying root causes contributing to acidification in the Empire State’s ocean...
New York Signs AB 10448 NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signs AB 10448 , which allows Empire State pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions to other pharmacies (ALBANY TIMES-UNION). New York Signs AB 5903A Also in NEW YORK , Gov. Cuomo...
Sanctions around the world have changed significantly in the last few months, according to a new eBook by LexisNexis. The eBook looks at how sanctions have changed in eight countries: the U.S., UK, Russia, Iran, Myanmar, Cuba, Democratic People’s...
Many nonprofits, foundations and universities are readying to participate in Giving Tuesday , a global day of giving celebrated on November 29 this year. A 24-hour social media campaign to elicit end-of-year charitable donations, Giving Tuesday is timed...
This post was guest written by Brandon Teeple, a junior at Wright State University. The Millennial Generation, those who are born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, have recently become the largest generation in the U.S. They range anywhere from...
The case could certainly be made that no other presidential race in memory or potentially history has received so much media attention—and, let’s face it, felt so much like a reality TV show—as this one. Now that the election is one...