Vol. 30 No. 2, February - February 2004
Index
- Legislative staff flourish over 30 years.
- Assistant Majority Leader Tony Kielkucki resigned his Minnesota House seat to become deputy secretary of state.
- Change is afoot in North Dakota. Since September, four legislators have been appointed to fill seats vacated by death or resignation.
- Democrat Fred Madden won a bitterly contested Senate race after a recount put him some 63 votes ahead of New Jersey Senator George Geist.
- Frank O'Bannon, the revered and respected Democratic governor of Indiana who served 18 years in the state Senate, died in September at the age of 73 following a stroke.
- Maryland Delegate Pete Rawlings, a "giant in Annapolis and the state," died of complications from cancer in November.
- Massachusetts Senator Cheryl Jacques resigned effective in January, allowing the Democratic leadership to set the special election to fill her seat on the same day as the state's presidential primary--when Democrats are expected to go to the polls in far larger numbers than Republicans.
- Republican Representative Sarah Agee, serving her third term in the Arkansas House, announced she will run for the seat currently held by first term Democratic Senator Sue Madison.
- 9-1-1 can you find me now?
- Black box unlocks car crash mysteries.
- Influenza vaccinations.
- Eco-terrorists take toll.
- A safe secret.
- A sunken treasure.
- Go fish, GloFish.
- Most qualified teachers.
- Operation Hairspray.
- Please come back.
- Violence at home.
- Bambi burgers.
- Billy, where are you, kid?
- Breaking the textbook monopoly.
- Eat their own.
- Goodbye senior year.
- Now that was fast.
- Where the guards are gone.
- The great hydrogen hope: clean burning hydrogen has a great deal of potential to help reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels. But there are significant barriers to surmount--cost, technology and safety.
- Surviving driving: immaturity and inexperience add up to disaster for many teen drivers. Some 6,000 are killed each year and 300,000 injured. But state laws can reduce the risks.
- When the media comes knocking: like it or not, the media is part of the legislative process. Here are six ideas to help lawmakers cultivate relationships with reporters and editors.
- Experience counts: when term limits made experience unconstitutional in Michigan, two smart women staffers moved into important positions of power.
- All star PR: today's savvy legislative public information officers are taking advantage of new technology to get their messages out to the media and the public.
- Stuff you need to succeed: all you need is a little equipment--it can be cheap or top-of-the-line--and you'll have radio stations and newspapers picking up your stuff like never before.
- Clearing the air: North Carolina's Clean Smokestacks Act 2002 N.C. Sess. Laws Chap. 4.
- Statewide student tests.
- Tobacco money well used, not abused: states have spent billions of dollars on health-related services. Even so, they are being criticized for using some of the tobacco money to fill budget gaps.
- As they see it.