Vol. 30 No. 7, July 2004
Index
- Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World.
- Heavy Lifting: the Job of the American Legislature.
- Correction.
- Heavy Lifting: the Job of the American Legislature.
- Integrity: Do You Have It?
- Our legislatures--a bargain at twice the price.
- A plea of no contest to charges of theft for listing his wife on health insurance forms before they were married led to the resignation of the Oregon Representative John Mabrey.
- Getting to school safely.
- Illinois Senate Majority Leader Vince Demuzio, elected in the 1974 post-Watergate-era Democratic landslide, died of colon cancer in April.
- John Hurson.
- John Ramsey, father of slain 6-year-old Jon-Benet Ramsey, is running in the Republican primary for Michigan's 105th House District.
- New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Representative Christopher Rants, speaker of the Iowa House, have accepted NCSL's appointments to the advisory board of the new Election Assistance Committee, created by the federal Help America Vote Act.
- Ray Ruiz, a New Mexico representative and former iron worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory, died of lung cancer in May.
- Scott Reske.
- Down home tourism.
- Income inches up.
- Spyware beware in Utah.
- Tennessee buys American.
- Wyoming terminates term limits.
- Gasless grass.
- Pay up or zip up.
- Stats, stats and more stats.
- Stinking school buses.
- Two seats, two votes.
- Free the bees.
- Just like new.
- Legislative fantasies.
- Plumbers beware.
- The young are waking up.
- They dream of sprawl.
- The new legislative reality: how leaders see it.
- Trade agreement trade-offs; international trade tribunals challenge state law and policy.
- Coverage conundrum: the challenge of rising state employee health insurance costs is hitting states hard.
- What's the benefit? A new federal Medicare drug plan stimulates independent actions and new ideas, but what's the future role for states?
- Dennis Damon: as good as it gets: devoted to bettering the wider community, this Maine Senator lives up to the state motto "Drigo"--I lead.
- How to deal with conflicts of interest: there's no getting away from all conflicts of interest. Here are eight ideas to help lawmakers juggle their personal and public interests.
- Exercising choices: living a healthy lifestyle can be a family affair--even in busy political families.
- Welfare reform: Minnesota style: reforming welfare is a work in progress. Even Minnesota's successful experiment that encourages work, but retains some benefits, is still being tweaked.
- ORCA--not a killer, but a whale of a Texas agency: Texas 2001 House Bill 7: the creation of the Office of Rural Community Affairs.
- See you in court: the balance of power between governors and legislatures sometimes gets out of whack.
- As they see it.