Vol. 30 No. 3, March - March 2004
Index
- From poverty to business owner.
- Edith Langster is used to public service.
- Marcus Halbrook, the former director of the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research, died Dec. 17.
- One year after assuming the position of Minnesota Senate majority leader and just weeks before the start of the new session, John Hottinger was voted out by fellow Democratic Farm-Labor members and replaced by Dean Johnson.
- The Rhode Island Senate made history in January when it elected 44-year-old M. Teresa Paiva Weed its first woman majority leader.
- Three experienced, well-regarded staff directors have recently retired.
- Two highly respected Iowa lawmakers have announced they will not seek re-election next year, taking with them a combined 60 years of experience when they depart.
- Lawmakers plan counterattack against base closings.
- Ohio targets Rx help for poor, elderly.
- Top 10 health care issues.
- DNA: crime solvers' magic bullet.
- Law schools for legislators in one day or less.
- Slower traffic keep right.
- Addicted to TV.
- Gotcha.
- Help with heat.
- Lost but found.
- Northern connections.
- Sippin' on Sunday.
- Free to run.
- No question where to turn.
- Now act like parents.
- Paradise returned.
- Shoot, rejected in Delaware.
- Stripping for schools.
- Medicaid: 10 fixes that work: of all the reforms states have retired, these are the ones that hold the most promise.
- Lots of kids drink ... keeping teens away from alcohol is tough, but not impossible.
- Too many kids smoke: teen smoking rates have fallen, but there's still work to be done in trying to keep kids from becoming addicted to tobacco.
- Pungent power: there's a spark of light in manure--it can make electricity.
- Telephone 101: personal contact with your constituents: the telephone can be a legislator's most important communication tool. Here are six hints for taking advantage of the opportunities a constituent's call provides.
- South Carolina reforms auto insurance: 1997-98 South Carolina Act #260 motor vehicle financial responsibility act title 56, chapter 9 as amended.
- Take your pick education: giving parents choices for their children's education is all the rage. But some worry that it may be too much of a good thing.
- As they see it.