Vol. 40 No. 10, December - December 2014
Index
- 1900.
- 210.
- 30.
- 43.
- CQ roll call.
- Focused.
- Lincoln Journal Star.
- Karl Kurtz: NCSL pillar and states' champion retires.
- Letters.
- Four decades strong: the 2000s and beyond.
- Season of mirth ... and expanding girth.
- A West Virginia college freshman made history in November by becoming the youngest state legislator in the nation.
- Hawaii Senator David IGE (D), who ousted a sitting governor in the democratic primary, went on to win the governorship.
- Massachusetts Senator Richard Moore (D), president pro tem and a veteran legislator whose career in statehouse politics spanned 35 years, was defeated.
- North Carolina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (R) was elected to the U.S. Senate.
- Oce Smith, who began his career as a page in the West Virginia House of Delegates.
- Ted Kennedy Jr.
- Washington Representative Roger Freeman, a first term lawmaker who made a major impact on child-welfare policy, died.
- California bags plastic bags.
- Charter schools checkup.
- Buckling down on buckling up.
- Municipal broadband debate.
- Campus sexual assault: by the numbers.
- E-liminating e-waste.
- The silent campus crime.
- 1 Kardashian connection.
- 2 Less enchantment, more education.
- 3 New jobs for those with disabilities.
- 4 Tying the knots.
- 5 Preying on Sunday.
- 10 Test for unintended impacts.
- 6 Healthy pets bill passes.
- 7 Turnout low-with exceptions.
- 8 For whom the bills toll.
- 9 D.C. vs. Goliath.
- Scaling new heights: Republicans reached historic highs following this year's elections.
- Measure by measure: voters gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up to many ballot measures, from marijuana legalization to minimum wage hikes.
- David Long: President Pro Tempore, Indiana Senate.
- Riding by the rules: the astonishing growth of ridesharing networks has policymakers asking how to ensure the road ahead is not only safe, but fair.
- Patent trolls' hefty tolls: lawmakers target shell companies that threaten small businesses with bogus claims of patent violations.
- Chemical quandary: chemicals are essential to our way of life, but who's ensuring their safe use?
- As they see it.