Vol. 35 No. 8, September 2009
Index
- Corrections.
- States support early learning spending.
- California legislative leaders challenged the legality of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's line-item vetoes of a budget bill passed in July aimed at closing the state's serious gap.
- First-term New Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt resigned from the Legislature in July under the cloud of an FBI corruption sting.
- Jim King, the former president of the Florida Senate widely recognized as one of the state's most powerful politicians, died from pancreatic cancer in July at age 69.
- Kansas House of Representatives.
- National Conference of State Legislatures.
- NCSL.
- Sean Parnell.
- Vincent Fumo.
- Parent power in placement of twins.
- What's up with Yucca Mountain?
- Age requirements for school.
- States assert sovereignty.
- Arts persevering.
- Name change.
- One a month, please.
- Password un-protected.
- Tractor parade.
- Trading to save.
- Counting votes.
- No teeth, please.
- Runaway juror.
- Scallions at the state house.
- Solar fast track.
- Education reset: the next version of No Child Left Behind is not going to happen without state lawmakers demanding a bigger say.
- What teachers need: research into why teachers leave the profession is helping lawmakers craft better policies to hold onto them.
- Teen driver tune-up: a move is underway to impose national standards on teen drivers.
- Riding out the storm: tiny Rhode Island has been buffeted by a huge fiscal hurricane that's far from over.
- Showdown in Albany: the month-long standoff in the New York Senate was one of the more unusual legislative spectacles in recent memory.
- Double duty: legislators who also serve in the military often find a new way of looking at representative democracy.
- Improving the odds: dozens of states aim to help minorities and low-income residents receive better medical care and live healthier lives.
- As they see it.