Vol. 31 No. 5, May 2005
Index
- Pat Wunnicke: one of a kind editor and friend.
- Zoning in on distressed communities.
- A bill requiring Georgia voters to show a photo identification before casting a ballot stirred up controversy and threats of censure in the state House.
- Arizona Representative David Burnell Smith has been ordered to leave office for overspending public campaign limits by more that $6,000 by the state's Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
- Indiana House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer underwent colon surgery in March and has returned to the Legislature.
- Mississippi representative Charlie Capps Jr., whose legislative career spanned four decades, is leaving the Legislature June 30.
- Senator Barbara Allen of Kansas has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
- The first woman elected to the Nebraska Legislature has died at the age of 78.
- The Virginia House of Delegates bid farewell to three of its respected members three days before adjourning in February.
- Getting rid of plastic.
- Michigan targets online tobacco taxes.
- Wyoming representatives get "Ambushed".
- A foreign concern.
- Junk fax farewell.
- Rural population exodus.
- A question of marriage.
- Cell phone contraband.
- Combating cyber rape.
- Family friendly session.
- No pet picnics.
- Teen donors.
- Back and forth in Kansas.
- Daylight delight.
- Deficit doldrums.
- Goodbye games.
- Tribal help with drug costs.
- Whoooo? Voles?
- The meth menace: battling the fast-paced spread of methamphetamine may mean attacking it from several fronts.
- States wrangle with corrections budgets: criminal justice budgets challenge states as costs and inmate populations increase.
- Adversaries always: legislators and reporters see their own as ethical. But neither profession thinks too highly of the morals of the other.
- Revolution in evolution? The evolution vs. creationism controversy continues to influence public school curriculum.
- Assisted living: a regulation dilemma: improving assisted living is no easy job, lawmakers have to look at quality, economy and affordability.
- Getting a grip on VoIP: Internet phone service technology is so new and changing so fast, no one knows how to regulate it--or even if they should.
- Pass the peas please: buying locally grown produce for use in state park restaurants makes just about everyone happy.
- How to syndicate your Web site: new technology makes it really simple to let interested constituents know when you have something new on your Web site. And it only takes five minutes to get started.
- As they see it.