Vol. 35 No. 3, March 2009
Index
- Blog: the thicket.
- Budget update.
- Cost of corrections.
- Fiscal woes.
- GrassCatcher: daily news.
- The reflecting pool.
- Voting nonpartisan help.
- Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau a first.
- Foreclosures persist.
- Connecticut lawmakers, facing an $8 billion budget deficit, took some time off in January to hear David Osborne, author of the 1992 bestseller, Reinventing Government.
- Correction.
- Dave Upthegrove.
- For a few moments it looked like chaos.
- Founding Father Thomas Paine is finding it hard to get respect in Arkansas.
- Louisiana Representative Nick Lorusso, a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, has been called to active duty in the Army Reserve.
- Representative Joe Straus is the new speaker of the Texas House, winning by acclamation and ending the six-year reign of Tom Craddick.
- Salvatore DiMasi, speaker of the Massachusetts House since 2004, resigned from the legislature in January saying, "My head is held high, and I am proud of my record.".
- California fights global warming.
- Homes that work forever.
- The four-day school week.
- Singing the Sunday blues.
- Where the air is clear.
- Baby blues.
- High-school partners.
- Peep, peep.
- Pet paradise.
- Slow motion energy.
- Vet court.
- Abusive dates.
- How virgin is it?
- Red light cameras.
- Teaching to buy.
- Wisconsota?
- Will it work? The recovery plan will help states struggling with massive budget shortfalls, but it may not be enough.
- Crime costs: tough-on-crime laws impose a steep sentence on state budgets.
- The state of corrections.
- States pressed to meet sex offender registration law.
- A huge pothole: transportation budgets are out of alignment and the repair bill is through the roof.
- Michigan's long fiscal misery: as the automobile industry struggles to survive, is there hope for the state's recession-wracked economy?
- 131 million: voters put the ballot to the test in a record-setting election.
- As they see it.