Vol. 28 No. 8, September 2002
Index
- Free "Custom" bill tracking.
- New Book on Privacy Laws.
- Tax Freedom Days.
- Ewe won't believe what New Hampshire is doing.
- Telemarketing regulations: A solution or a violation?
- Report rates women's health: improvements needed.
- Up in smoke (or maybe not): states eye crematoriums.
- A levy on latte?
- State house beautiful.
- The nose knows.
- Unfinished business.
- Unprepared teachers.
- A gift or a bribe?
- Alcoholic look-alikes.
- Going to school at home.
- Got your goat?
- Runoff worse than spills.
- A flood of new faces: Election 2002 will bring peak turnover in legislatures, what with redistricting and term limits kicking in.
- Letting the voters decide: initiatives and referendums around the country will give voters plenty to think about this November.
- School funding--what's enough? determining exactly what is needed to do a good job teaching our children continues to be elusive. But there are some ideas that may help.
- Focusing on results for kids: when it comes to children's issues, some Maryland legislators are trying to shift the focus of the legislative process from operations to results. It isn't easy.
- When foster care ends: for teens who grew up in foster care, starting life on their own is a jarring, sometimes frightening change. What are states doing to support their transition to adulthood?
- The public life of e-mail: states need to decide if lawmakers' e-mails constitute a public record. Court cases are forcing the issue.
- Addicted to taxes: The only tax it might be popular to raise is the one on cigarettes.
- Supreme Court sides with states--again: once more states won more than they lost in cases before the country's highest court.
- The legislature is like...: in response to last September's article looking at that old metaphor about the similaritities of making laws and making sausage, readers come up with metaphors of their own.