Vol. 33 No. 3, March 2007
Index
- *Getting out the vote *.
- Dan Sutton.
- District of Columbia Council.
- June Goulson, director of the New Hampshire independent Senate Research Office.
- Kansas Speaker Melvin Neufeld has appointed three Republicans and three Democrats to a committee that will review the election of fresh man Democratic Representative Gene Rardin, who won his race against opponent John Kriegshauser by just two votes.
- North Carolina House.
- Peter Schwartzkopf.
- Senator Ron Ramsey became the first Republican Senate speaker and lieutenant governor to be elected in Tennessee since 1869 when Democrat Rosalind Kurita cast her vote for him.
- Texas Speaker Tom Craddick, the first Republican speaker in 130 years when he was elected to the post in 2003, fended off an attempted coup to win his second term as House leader.
- William Sharpe Jr.
- March is Women's History month.
- National treasure.
- Working on welfare diversion.
- Legislatures look at Civics Education.
- The trickle-up trend.
- Girl violence.
- Move over.
- No time left.
- Plain talk works.
- Tailgaters beware.
- Yellowstone is growing up.
- Africa votes.
- Capitol security.
- Don't free the fish.
- Hot sand.
- Oregon goes annual on TV.
- Recycling homes.
- Nuclear renaissance? Many are looking at nuclear energy as a solution to our energy needs and foreign oil dependency.
- Tough act to follow: as the federal government wrestles with its role in controlling greenhouse gases, one state hasn't hesitated to attack global warming.
- The power of polls: a primer for generating, analyzing and using poll information.
- Plunging into the gene pool: even though the legal landscape has changed, concerns about the abuse of genetic testing persist.
- Going paperless: there may never be a completely electronic legislature, but some are getting close.
- Direct democracy's disaster: through the initiative process, Colorado recently passed a law with loads of unintended consequences.
- A new day for learning: it's time to look at changing the length and scope of the school day to help kids succeed.
- Lawmaker holds hope in Hemp North Dakota Representative David Monson wants to be the first American farmer to grow industrial hemp.
- As they see it.