Vol. 40 No. 3, March - March 2014
Index
- A Capitol snow day!(POINT OF ORDER) (Oregon legislature shuts down due to snow) (Brief article)
- Coming soon to a state near you.
- Say what? NCSL staff share expertise.
- The maestro at work: NCSL Executive Committee, Austin.
- Trending@ncsl.org.
- Tweet tweet.
- Immigration summation.
- Four decades strong: the trials, trends and topics of '75.
- A former Connecticut Speaker of the House who authored the nation's second "Megan's Law" in 1995 is producing a 13-part series on child sex trafficking.
- California Democrats chose Assemblywoman Toni Atkins as their next Speaker.
- Partisan power shifted in the Virginia Senate in early February, when Democrat Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. won a recount by just 11 votes.
- Representative Jeff Hickman (R) is the new Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
- Senator Therese Murray (D), Massachusetts' first female Senate president, has announced she will not seek re-election.
- Wyoming representative Sue Wallis (R), a cattle rancher.
- User fees inch up.
- Avenging revenge porn.
- Poll books go digital.
- E-cigarette debate lights up.
- Irish Ayes by the numbers.
- 1 Showstopper.
- 2 Shotty performance.
- 3 Hug a road.
- 4 Friendly callers.
- 5 Got dots?
- 10 Weekend? What weekend?
- 6 Death row decision.
- 7 Bus busts.
- 8 Banking deserts.
- 9 Short on cash.
- Maximum divide on minimum wage: studies abound on the minimum wage, but the conclusions drawn vary greatly.
- State innovators: many of the elements in the Affordable Care Act were developed and already being used in the states.
- A look back: several examples from history illustrate how an innovative idea from a state can sweep the nation.
- Tom Frieden: Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- REAL ID is for real: the federal government has begun to phase in enforcement of standards on state-issued driver's licenses.
- Partners in power: the United States' long energy relationship with Canada runs deep and wide.
- Delivering good news: the U.S. teen birth rate has fallen by more than half over the past two decades, but it's still higher than desirable.
- As they see it.
- [Cartoon].