Vol. 34 No. 10, December 2008
Index
- Correction.
- Tiny babies, big cost.
- A Missouri senator who switched from Republican to Democrat last year defeated the Republican Senate president pro tem for state attorney general.
- Cam Ward.
- Correction.
- In memoriam.
- Long-time Indiana Senate Democratic Leader Richard Young has announced he will not seek re-election to his leadership post.
- North Carolina elected its first female governor and the nation's 30th in November.
- Representative Jim Watson returned to the Illinois House recently following a tour with the Marines in Iraq.
- The Massachusetts Senate passed a unanimous resolution asking a 15-year veteran, arrested in October on federal corruption charges, to resign.
- Driving while really drunk.
- Mental health care for Veterans.
- NCLB directs teachings time.
- A coming blow for state budgets?
- States are winners.
- Budget blues.
- Green jobs in our future.
- A=$50.
- Anonymous rights.
- Gun law shot down.
- Lucky lotteries.
- Saggy jeans OK.
- Toll road troubles.
- Better not say no.
- Calories count.
- Day is done.
- Remedial price tag.
- Wolves return.
- Making history: Democrats pump up their control of state legislatures, but Republicans also make gains.
- Obama leads state lawmakers headed to Washington.
- The people speak: voters faced important and sometimes complex policy questions on statewide ballots.
- Three years later: after the devastation of Katrina, Gulf-state lawmakers are optimistic but sobered by the work that remains.
- Right to know: most states have laws requiring notification when personal data are stolen. How effective the laws have been, though, is an open question.
- A different kind of jail: when parents are in prison, kids face their own trials. Now states are stepping in.
- Inside the legislative machine.
- As they see it.