Vol. 35 No. 7, July 2009
Index
- Photo correction.
- Working full-time in state legislatures.
- A Denver district judge in June issued a temporary injunction against a campaign finance amendment passed by Colorado voters in November.
- A Florida grand jury has issued two rounds of indictments against ousted Florida Speaker Ray Sansom, and state investigators seized his legislative computer looking for evidence that he falsified the state budget to give $6 million for an aircraft hanger for a major contributor.
- Daryl Metcalfe.
- Delaware Senate President Thurman Adams, one of the state's most powerful and respected political leaders, died of pancreatic cancer in June.
- Juan Arambula.
- Kirk Adams.
- Luciano "Lucky" Varela.
- Sal DiMasi.
- Cost savings through IT.
- Newer roads for older folks.
- No ring tones in chambers.
- Lawmakers address autism.
- The vexing issue of 'sexting'.
- Female farms.
- Greenbacks for green grass.
- Learning to share.
- Nebraska gets fit.
- New drivers' orange alert.
- Wine boom.
- Flush away your worries.
- GPS goes too far.
- Hammer down.
- Strip clubs exposed.
- Tests cut.
- Colorado pioneers: Peter Groff and Terrance Carroll broke ground by being the first African Americans to lead both chambers of a state legislature at the same time. But they'd rather keep the focus on the work than on race.
- It's different at the top: leadership in the statehouse has seen plenty of changes in race, gender and religious background.
- The changing face of state legislatures.
- The granite state's new, softer look: even the women who planned to take the majority in the New Hampshire Senate were surprised by the outcome.
- Maine's main women: the success of the state's two top leaders may have more to do with voters' independent streak than it does with gender politics.
- Hitting the glass dome: female legislators are no longer an anomaly, but they still are under-represented at the statehouse.
- Nervous in New York: the Legislature finally hammered out a budget with the governor, but the Empire State has plenty of red ink in its future.
- Bringing down Blagojevich: the Illinois legislature turned to impeachment after years at loggerheads with the defiant governor.
- The state of staff: NCSL's survey finds that after growth in the '70s and '80s, the number of legislative staff has leveled off.
- Leading light: West Virginia Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin is the recipient of this year's Excellence in State Legislative Leadership Award.
- Lee rules: the Alabama Senate's veteran secretary has kept the chamber running smoothly for 46 years.
- Life in reverse: Gary Wilhelms' career in politics started as an Oregon lawmaker and is winding up as a college intern.
- High cost of safe sports: medical help to avert student sports tragedies is an expensive problem law makers are trying to solve.
- Cupid in the Capitol: getting hitched at the statehouse offers a beautiful, historic setting.
- What you need to know about social networking.
- As they see it.