Vol. 40 No. 8, September - September 2014
Index
- 10.
- 15.
- 230.
- 25.
- 32.
- Associated Press.
- Bloomberg.
- Focused.
- InsuranceNews.net.
- Stateline and the Huffington Post.
- Bad actors.
- The bugs stopped here.
- The where, what and why of the 1,040 cases reported in 2009 and 2010.
- What's in the water?
- Four decades strong: the 1990s: the best and the worst.
- Burning Down the House.
- California played its own version of musical chairs in July when Governor Jerry Brown went on a trade mission to Mexico.
- For a brief few hours, South Carolina interim Lt. Governor Yancey McGill (D) took on the mantle of executive power while Governor Nikki Haley had outpatient arm surgery.
- Massachusetts senate president Therese Murray (D) was honored by her colleagues as she brought the gavel down for the last time on Beacon Hill.
- Merle Grace Kearns (R), a respected Ohio lawmaker who served in the legislature for 15 years before becoming director of the Ohio Department of Aging, died in August.
- Veteran Hawaii Senator David Ige (D) won an overwhelming victory in the democratic primary for governor in August, ousting incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie and ending a political career that ranged from the Legislature to Congress and then to the governor's office over a span of some 40 years.
- Washington senate president pro Tem Tim Sheldon (D) beat back a challenge from the right in the August primary to win the No. 2 spot behind a Democratic challenger in the three-way race.
- Separating stalkers from tracking technology.
- A 'C' in financial literacy.
- Airplane parts and frozen fish livers: by the numbers.
- Leaving the nest when it's best.
- Nuclear reactors go small.
- Re: your voter registration.
- School drills address armed intruders.
- 1 Gloves come off in California.
- 2 Tapping entrepreneurs.
- 3 "Fish wars" chapter closes.
- 4 Freeze!(STATELINE) (traffic ticket quotas) (Brief article)
- 5 High and dry.
- 10 Tony's law has claws.
- 6 Who moved the capitol?
- 7 Cheapest states.
- 8 The doctor is in.
- 9 Yogurt for 'Yorkers.
- Hire power: to close the skills gap, states are teaming up with industries that need, but can't find, qualified workers.
- 2014 Legislative staff professional development.
- Common core: put to the test: state legislatures have become ground zero for the new Common Core education standards.
- Fraud fighter or ballot blocker? Although voter ID legislation has dwindled, controversy over the laws continues.
- Ethics, elections and accusations: preventing frivolous, unfounded ethics complaints, especially during election season, helps keep politics out of the process.
- Big data = big benefits: states are using large amounts of data to improve efficiency, fight fraud and identify savings.
- As they see it.