Vol. 31 No. 9, October 2005
Index
- Excellence in State Legislative Leadership Award.
- Lawmakers enact policy resolutions.
- Next stop: Nashville.
- Officers pass the gavel.
- State budget crises ebb.
- Utah legislative web site wins Online Democracy Award.
- Women's network turns 20.
- Kids having kids declines.
- Connie Johnson, a former health and human services senior legislative analyst for the Oklahoma Senate, has won a bid to fill the seat being vacated by Senator Angela Monson.
- Fourteen lawmakers and legislative staff called into military service received NCSL's Medal of Civic Honor at the Strong States, Strong Nation Annual Meeting in Seattle in August.
- Georgia House Republicans saw their majority move to 100 in the 180-seat chamber when Representative Greg Morris switched parties in August.
- John Hurson.
- Missouri voters will go the polls Nov. 8 to replace three legislators.
- Who represents the least?
- Who represents the most constituents?
- Counting on the future: changing demographics.
- Marketing of prescription drugs gets attention.
- More young adults uninsured.
- Cars now safer in parking lots.
- WiFi, why not?
- City politics.
- Here come da ferrets.
- How are the kids?
- Pretty people pay.
- Taxing troubles.
- The gross factor.
- Hard heads or helmets?
- Let it snow.
- Paying to puff.
- Student drinking.
- What? Constitution day.
- Lessons of Rocky flats: three state and federal agencies set aside distrust to clean up one of America's dirtiest Superfund sites.
- Trade rules gamble with state laws: the WTO ruling on Internet gambling seems to favor the states, but some fear it also left the door open for another challenge in the future.
- Bliss or blues: with state revenue performance improving, states appear to have turned the corner on the latest national recession.
- Editorial boards: the power of influence: winning an endorsement from a newspaper editorial board can spur public support for an issue or even change a candidate's political fate.
- The rise and fall of the California governor: Schwarzenegger's approval ratings, along with the Legislature's, have taken a nose-dive after a divisive and unproductive year.
- An ounce of prevention: early detection of certain diseases in infants can save lives and prevent suffering.
- Quotes from NCSL's "Strong States, Strong Nation" 2005 annual meeting.