Vol. 32 No. 1, January 2006
Index
- Don't forget Nebraska.
- Minnesota has 67 senators.
- Statistics good only if all factors considered.
- Our children's well-being.
- Alabama Representative Jack Venable, chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, died in November of leukemia.
- Dennis Byars.
- Jim Bruce.
- Lee Daniels, a 30-year veteran of the Illinois House, long time Republican leader, one-term speaker and former president of NCSL, has announced he will not seek another term.
- Oklahoma Speaker Todd Hiett, who led the GOP to its first majority in 80 years in the election of 2004, has announced he is running for lieutenant governor.
- Rupert Theobald.
- The oldest member of the Delaware General Assembly has announced she will step down at the end of the current session. Representative Tina Fallon, 88, is serving her 14th term.
- Going after video game violence.
- Price gouging: not in my state.
- Sticker shock.
- College catalyst.
- Cord promise.
- Finger pushups?
- Fired up by wood.
- The lowly shepherd.
- Warm river.
- But does it smell?
- Knife bonanza.
- New gold rush.
- Rockfish rock.
- Worker friendly.
- Challenges in 2006: states' top 10.
- Washington watch: 10 top issues for states: state lawmakers have to keep an eye on Congress this session defending against unfunded mandates and preemption.
- Leaders: what matters now: state legislatures magazine gathered a group of legislative leaders to talk about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Here's what they had to say.
- How to create a great bill draft: follow these suggestions and get the bill you want.
- Coloradans reach their limit with TABOR: in one of the fiercest issue campaigns watched nationwide, Colorado voters chose to give money back to the financially strapped state.
- Schwarzenegger rebuffed: voters soundly defeated the California governor's ballot measures, and the Legislature may be stronger as a result.
- Eminent domain--for the greater good? The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London has prompted states to look at their own eminent domain practices.
- Prime time democracy: a growing number of public affairs networks demystify democracy.
- As they see it.